Mangaluru: Two gets five years rigorous imprisonment in Ganja smuggling case
Mangaluru: The Principal District and Sessions Court on Wednesday convicted two persons for five years rigorous imprisonment and slapped a fine of Rs 1 lakh each on charges of smuggling ganja.
The convicted have been identified as Mohammed Touseef (22) of Kajoor and Abdul Sinan (24) of Malavanthige in Belthangady taluk. If the convicted failed to pay the penalty, they have to undergo six months additional imprisonment, the court said.
About incident
When Belthangady PSI Girish and his team were checking the vehicles near Anugraha PU college at Ujire on March 13, 2018, the convicted tried to escape from them. But the police caught them after finding ganja in their car. Later, the police confiscated the ganja, car, mobile phones and cash from them and arrested. Later, they were produced before the court.
Hearing the case, judge Kadlur Satyanarayan Acharya announced the verdict. Public prosecutors Pushparaj K and Raju Poojary argued against the convicted.
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Woman in Shishila bitten by cobra while working in plantation dies
Belthangady: A woman in her mid-50s from Guddethota in Shishila village here died after suffering a snake bite while working in a plantation on Sunday.
The deceased, identified as Prema (55), was reportedly bitten by a cobra when working in a plantation located in Shishila village of the taluk on Sunday afternoon.
The members of the Shourya Disaster Response Team, who were informed of the incident, arrived at the plantation and took Prema to the Puttur Government Hospital, but the patient is learned to have died due to the intensity of the snake venom.
Prema is survived by her daughter and son.
