Two arrested while smuggling 49 kg Ganja in container truck in Udupi
Udupi: District Crime Information Bureau (DCIB) police on Saturday arrested two people who were reportedly selling Ganja drugs in a container truck. The police team has also seized 49 kg of Ganja drugs from the arrested accused.
The arrested accused have been identified as Karutapandi (30) a resident of Tamilnadu and Vanu Haldar (30), a resident of West Bengal.
According to the reports, the truck that was coming from Uttar Pradesh was intercepted by the police near Brahmavar Taluk for inspection. The team then recovered 49kg of Ganja drugs from the drug that were stuffed into bamboo sticks and were being illegally smuggled.
DCIB Inspector Manjappa led the operation and ASI Ravichandra, Santosh Kunder, Rama Hegde, Dayanand, Raj Kumar, Chandra Shetty, Suresh, Raghuvendra and Shivanand were part of the police team.
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Udupi: Two men from Belthangady awarded life imprisonment for attempt to murder a woman in 2022
Udupi: Two men from Belthangady have been sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in Udupi for attempting to murder a woman in Manchikumeri in 2022.
The sentenced men, Mithun and Nagesh Poojary, are learned to have attempted to murder Sumathi, wife of Ramanath Rai, a resident of Manchikumeri, who had a Nandini Milk Parlour at Tiger Circle, Manipal.
On February 18, 2022, Sumathi was reportedly alone at home when, at around 7 pm, Mithun, learned to be her nephew, and his friend Poojary came to the house. As Sumathi opened the door, the duo barged in and tried to strangulate her with an intention of murdering her. Sumathi reportedly lost consciousness under the attack.
The men packed her body in a sack and were then putting the sack into a suitcase to carry the body out, when they noticed that Rai and neighbours had arrived. They are learned to have opened the door when Rai knocked the door and then tried to escape. They were, however, caught by the neighbours and handed over to the police.
Further, Sumathi was found by the group in an unconscious state inside the suitcase in the house. She was rushed to the Manipal Hospital and learned to have recovered after a week of medical treatment.
A case had been registered at the Manipal Police Station.
The Udupi Principal District and Sessions Court judge Kiran S Gangannavar, who heard the case, has declared both Mithun and Poojary guilty in the case. He has awarded them life imprisonment, fined them Rs 20,000 each and, under Column 325, sentenced them to rigorous imprisonment of 5 years and fined them Rs 5,000 each.
Judge Gangannavar has directed that, of the fine, Rs 45,000 be handed to the attack victim Sumathi as relief.
Jayarama Shetty represented the government as Public Prosecutor.
