Mangaluru: Dancer Kishore Shetty, aide, sent to 7-day police custody in drugs case
Mangaluru: Dancer-choreographer Kishore Aman Shetty and Aqeel Nausheel, who were arrested on charges of drug dealing and consumption, have been remanded to police custody for seven days, police sources said on Monday.
The two were produced before the judge at his residence on Sunday who ordered for seven days custody as sought by the police.
They were later subjected to a coronavirus test and the results are awaited, the sources said.
Shetty, who appeared in the reality show, dance India dance and went on to play a small role in a Hindi film, revealed to the police officials that he took to drug peddling only recently, though he was an addict for some time, sources said.
Police will resume the interrogation after getting the Covid-19 test result, they added.
Shetty and his aide Aqeel Nausheel were arrested by the city crime branch (CCB) police on Saturday during the investigation into the drug racket in the city.
The drug MDMA, also known as ecstasy, worth Rs one lakh was also seized from them.
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Count of voters in Gujarat drops by 73.73 lakh to 4.34 crore post-SIR
Ahmedabad (PTI): The names of nearly 74 lakh voters have been dropped from Gujarat's draft electoral rolls after the completion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, pegging the total count of electors at 4.34 crore as against the 5.08 crore earlier, an official said on Friday.
The draft electoral rolls were published here by the Election Commission on Friday.
A total of 73.73 lakh voters were omitted from the electoral rolls after the exercise initiated by the EC to clean the rolls, state Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Hareet Shukla said.
"Before the publication of the draft electoral rolls, a total of 5,08,43,436 voters were registered in the state. After the publication of these rolls, the number of voters is now 4,34,70,109," he said.
"During the SIR campaign, the names of a total of 73,73,327 voters have been removed from the draft electoral roll," Shukla said.
The names of voters in following categories were deleted in the draft electoral rolls -- deceased voters (18,07,278), absent voters (9,69,662), voters who have permanently migrated (40,25,553), voters registered in two places (3,81,470) and others (1,89,364), a release from CEO office said.
The SIR exercise began in Gujarat on November 4 and ended on December 14.
After the publication of draft rolls, objections and claims regarding them can be submitted to authorities till January 18, the EC earlier said.
