SAQCO company's chartered flight leaves for Mangaluru from Dammam with 175 stranded Kannadigas
The flight will land at Mangaluru Airport on late Wednesday night
Dammam: A chartered flight arranged by SAQCO Contracting Company in Saudi Arabia, took off from Dammam International Airport with stranded Kannadigas who were stuck in Saudi Arabia due to COVID-19 lockdown. The flight is expected to touchdown at the Mangaluru International Airport on Wednesday.
The flight with 175 passengers took off from the Dammam International Airport at 5:40 pm (KSA time).
SAQCO’s Directors Althaf Ullal and Basheer Sagar informed Vartha Bharati that all the legal procedures were carried out smoothly before the flight took off from Dammam for Mangaluru.
The duo also informed that no staff or official of SAQCO were traveling on the chartered flight and that it was arranged only for the stranded Kannadigas. The cost of traveling, institutional quarantine, and COVID-19 tests will be borne by the SAQCO Company.
SAQCO had established a desk to finalize the list of passengers who will be traveling on the flight to Mangaluru on Wednesday. The company added priority was given to pregnant women, the senior citizens who had come to the kingdom on visit visas, people with medical emergencies, people who had lost jobs, and those who had reported deaths in their families.
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Man held with Rs 6.23 lakh drugs in Palghar
Palghar (PTI): Police have arrested a man after seizing drugs valued at Rs 6.23 lakh from his possession in Maharashtra's Palghar district, officials said on Sunday.
Based on intelligence inputs, the police conducted a raid at Dhaniv Bagh in the Nalasopara area on December 4 and apprehended the man.
During a search, they recovered brown sugar valued at Rs 6 lakh and Nitrazepam (a psychotropic drug) tablets costing Rs 23,628 from his possession, a police release said.
The accused, identified as Salim Bagion alias Sardar Chacha (40), was arrested and booked under provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, the release said.
The accused is a habitual offender. He has 12 previous cases registered against him, including three under the NDPS Act, the police said.
