Five held for having cocaine, valuables worth Rs 20 lakh seized
Mangaluru, August 17: With the arrest of five people for having cocaine illegally, the Mangaluru CCB police busted a racket which has been selling cocaine in the city, on Friday and recovered the drug, vehicles, and cash worth around Rs 20 lakh from the accused.
The arrested are identified as Vijesh Kumar (34) of Manjeshwar Kunjathur, gym trainer Nithin (35) of Puttur Narimogaru, real estate agent Santosh Kumar of Bejai Church road, Sandeep Kumar (34) of Bondel KHB Colony and Rahul (26) of Soujanya Lane at Bikarnakatte.
Acting on a tip-off that four-five people have been selling the drug to the students, the CCB police raided them and arrested them. The police recovered the drug worth Rs 50,000, three cars, seven mobile phones and Rs 1,02,000 cash and it was estimated the worth of the drug and other valuables is Rs 19,57,000. The accused used to bring the drug from Goa and selling here, it is said.
CCB inspector Shantaram, Mangaluru East inspector Maruthi Nayak and CCB PSI Shamsundar, and staff participated in the operation.
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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.
