Passenger arrested at BLR airport with hydroponic ganja worth Rs 70.35 lakh
Bengaluru (PTI): Customs officials on Friday said they arrested a passenger at Kempegowda International Airport on Friday after he arrived from Bangkok carrying hydroponic ganja worth Rs 70.35 lakh.
The passenger's identity has not been disclosed.
"In the early hours of January 23, officers at Kempegowda International Airport’s Terminal 2 intercepted a passenger arriving from Bangkok and seized 2.01 kg of hydroponic ganja, valued at Rs 70.35 lakh," Bengaluru Customs said in a post on 'X'.
The passenger has been arrested under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
Further investigation is underway.
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MP: 7-year-old girl raped and murdered; minor relative detained
Barwani (MP), Jan 28 (PTI) Police on Wednesday detained a 17-year-old relative of a seven-year-old girl in Barwani district of Madhya Pradesh for allegedly raping her and killing her by throwing her into a canal, a police official said.
Superintendent of Police Jagdish Dawar told reporters that the body of the child was recovered from the Indira Sagar Canal on January 26, following information from residents of a village in the Rajpur police station area of the district.
He said the post-mortem report concluded severe injuries to the girl’s private parts and attributed her death to drowning.
Dawar said a 17-year-old boy, a close relative of the girl, has been detained in connection with the rape-murder.
The teenager told the police that he kidnapped the girl from her home on the night of January 25 while her family members were asleep, took her to a nearby canal and raped her, according to the official.
When the girl started screaming during the sexual assault, the minor boy allegedly threw her into the canal, with the intention of killing her. The child drowned in the water body, the official said.
The detained minor will be produced in a juvenile court.
A case has been registered under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and an investigation is underway, he added.
