Bengaluru Police seize drugs worth Rs 7.83 crore, arrest 14 including foreigners
New drug found for first time in Bengaluru
Bengaluru: In a significant operation, the CCB Police in Bengaluru have seized drugs worth Rs 7.83 crore and arrested 14 individuals, including three foreigners. The operation is part of the police department's ongoing battle against drug-related crimes in the city.
Bengaluru City Police Commissioner B. Dayanand provided details during a press conference held at the police commissioner's office. He highlighted that the operation resulted in the seizure of a substantial quantity of drugs across seven cases registered in different parts of the city, including Vidyaranyapura, Banashankari, and Cottonpet.
Among the seized drugs, a new addition to the list was mephedrone, which had not been previously detected in Bengaluru. The police confiscated a total of 1.8 kilograms of mephedrone. The accused individuals were reportedly selling mephedrone for a substantial Rs 15,000 per gram.
One of the arrested suspects, Francis, originally from Nigeria, was found in possession of mephedrone, cocaine, and MDMA ecstasy powder. The value of the seized drugs from this individual alone amounted to Rs 3.80 crores.
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
