Belthangady: Local police on Friday arrested two people for allegedly selling ganja drugs. The operation was carried by officials of Belthangady Police Station at Saparabailu here.

The accused duo have been identified as Mohammed Rafiq (35), a resident of Maddadka Chilimbi, and Noufal (25), a resident of Alandila.

Reportedly, under the leadership of Belthangady ASI Nandakumar, the police were screening vehicles passing through the National Highway at Sabarabailu on Friday evening. During the screening process, the police stopped the two-wheeler of the accused duo who were coming from the Maddadka direction and conducted a search on their vehicle, and reportedly uncovered the unlawful transportation of Ganja. The police informed that they recovered 1.5 kgs of Ganja from the vehicle.

A case has been registered at the Belthangady Police Station in this regard.

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Kolkata, Apr 26: Authorities at the Kolkata airport on Friday received an email claiming bombs were planted at various places on its premises, triggering a frantic search across the facility, officials said.

However, the mail, which threatened that the bombs will explode at 12.55 pm, turned out to be a hoax, they said.

Security agencies at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport (NSCBIA) conducted a thorough search operation following the email, said Aishwariya Sagar, the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Airport Division of Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate.

“After carrying out an extensive search operation, the security personnel concluded that the threat was a hoax,” she said.

Airport authorities, the CISF and the Bidhannagar Police are jointly carrying out an investigation to determine the origin and sender of the email, the officials said.

“We are in the process of tracking the origin of the email,” Sagar said.