Mangaluru: Police warns people against North Indian gang robbing cars in city
Mangaluru: Local police in the city have warned people to remain alert as a suspected North-Indian gang is operating in Mangaluru Police Commissionarate jurisdiction in the city.
The gang reportedly is robbing parked cars by breaking their window glasses.
Incidents have been reported from Urwa Store, Bunder, and Balmatta in the city where the thieves broke up the windows of the car and made away with phones, laptops, cash over 40 thousand rupees, cheque books among other valuable items.
The police informed that the North Indian gang was active in the area and that owing to weekend curfew chances of them operating was bleak and that the police teams will continue looking out for them from Monday.
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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.
