Passenger held at Bengaluru airport with hydroponic ganja worth Rs 1.71 cr
Bengaluru (PTI): Custom sleuths at the Kempegowda international airport have arrested a passenger who arrived here from Malaysia for smuggling hydroponic ganja worth Rs 1.71 crores, officials said on Wednesday.
The incident occurred on December 1 at Terminal 2 of the Bengaluru Airport, they said.
"Custom officers @Kempegowda International Airport @T2, Bengaluru, intercepted 1 passenger arriving from Kuala Lumpur and seized 4.9 kgs. of Hydroponic Ganja, valued at Rs 1.71 Crores. The pax has been arrested under the NDPS (Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances) Act, 1985," Bengaluru Customs said in a post on 'X'.
The customs, however, did not disclose the identity of the passenger.
In another post, the Bengaluru Customs said that from November 18 to 30, officials at the Airport have busted a smuggling network with the seizure of 19.65L cigarettes, 4,830 e-cigarettes, 69.67 kg ganja, 115 electronic items and wildlife species, including 280 tarantulas and 2,809 endangered fish.
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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.
