Mangaluru: The Mangaluru Central Crime Branch (CCB) Police recently arrested four men who were smuggling narcotics (ganja) from Andhra Pradesh to Kerala and seized 119 kg narcotics from them, City Police Commissioner Anupam Agrawal has said.
The Commissioner told reporters in the city that the arrested men, Ajay Krishnan U, Jeevan Singh, Moideen Shabbeer, and Mahesh Dwarakanath Pande, had been transporting the narcotics to Kerala through Mangaluru. The CCB Police, who received information that a large quantity of ganja was being smuggling within the jurisdiction limits of Konaje Police Station, conducted an investigation in the area and seized the narcotics as well as a car and a mini truck that were being used by the smugglers.
The CCB Police personnel, on inspection of the car, found up to 34 kg of narcotics inside. The mini truck had an additional 85 kg of narcotics wrapped in packets as well as empty fish trays. The police also confiscated five mobile phones from the arrested men, the senior officer said.
Speaking of the arrested men, Agrawal said that Moideen Shabbeer was a criminal from Kerala who had 12 cases against him for murder, violation of Arms Act, smuggling of narcotics and illegal trade of cattle. Six robbery cases had been filed against his acquaintance Ajay Krishnan. Mahesh Pande and Jeevan Singh, who had been arrested in 2021 in a case, had been planning to smuggle narcotics from Andhra Pradesh to Kerala, he added.
Further, the Commissioner said that Visakhapatnam had become a prime spot for narcotics smugglers who got their supplies from the Maoist-infested areas in Andhra Pradesh. The smugglers collected the narcotics in Visakhapatnam and transported them to various places in Kerala and Maharashtra, among other states, he explained.


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Bengaluru (PTI): A 34-year-old mechanic has died after falling off a scooter on his way to a referral hospital, as the medical facility that diagnosed him to have suffered a heart attack did not provide necessary first aid, the family of the deceased claimed.
A CCTV video showing his injured wife pleading with passersby for help while her husband Venkataramanan lay on the road after falling from the two-wheeler on December 13 has gone viral recently.
According to the family, Venkataramanan complained of chest pain, and his wife Roopa rushed him on their scooter from their home in Balaji Nagar around 3.30 am to a private hospital where treatment was denied, citing the non-availability of a doctor, the family said.
Then, she took him to another hospital where ECG was done, which showed him to have suffered a heart attack. However they immediately referred him to the Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences. The family alleged that no basic treatment was provided there. On the way to Jayadeva hospital, Venkataramanan allegedly suffered chest pain again and the couple fell off the scooter, the family said.
In the CCTV video, injured Roopa can be seen pleading with passersby to help her husband reach the hospital, but no one responded until a cab driver stopped to check on them. With his help, she reached Jayadeva hospital, where doctors declared Venkataramanan brought dead, the family said. His family later donated his eyes.
