Mangaluru: NIA team raids house in Ullal, arrests one person after day-long enquiry
Mangaluru: National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday raided a house in Ullal here in the city and arrested one person after the day-long enquiry.
A team of 20 NIA officers raided the house of BM Basha, a resident of Mastikatte in Ullal. The team arrived at the house around 5:30 in the morning and continued its raid till evening. The team then formally arrested Basha’s younger son Ammar for further investigation.
According to the reports, the NIA after producing Ammar before the court was planning to take him to Bengaluru or Delhi for further investigation.
Speaking to Vartha Bharati Basha stated that the enquiry was about his granddaughter and her husband who went missing about four years ago. We answered all the questions asked by the raiding team, he said.
“They were at our house from morning to evening. They checked our mobile phones and questioned about some of the videos they found on the phones. We answered them duly and cleared their doubts” he told Vartha Bharati.
“They seized my younger son’s mobile phone and questioned him over some videos found in it. My son answered them. The officers then said they will present him in the court and take him to Delhi for 10 days for “Counselling”. They have assured us that they will send him back if he is clean” he further said.
“We have utmost respect and trust in the judicial system of this country. We are law-abiding citizens and have never committed things against it. And we will continue doing so. We are confident that our son will return home soon clean” Basha further stated.
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Man arrested with Rs 2.54-crore heroin in Mumbai
Mumbai (PTI): Police have arrested a man and seized over 500 grams of heroin worth Rs 2.54 crore in the illicit market from him in Mumbai, officials said on Friday.
The police's Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) made the drug seizure in Santacruz in the western suburbs. The operation was conducted by the Kandivali unit of the ANC on Thursday as part of a special crackdown against drug trafficking in the area, they said.
Acting on specific inputs, an ANC team conducted a raid in Santacruz (East) and intercepted a man. During a search, the team recovered 508 grams of high-grade heroin from his possession, an official said.
The seized contraband, a highly addictive, opioid drug derived from morphine, is estimated to be worth Rs 2.54 crore in the international market, he informed.
Following the seizure, a case was registered against the man under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, and he was formally placed under arrest in the early hours of Friday.
The police are currently investigating the source of the drug and trying to identify the intended recipients of the consignment, he said.
