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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BENGALURU: Karnataka home minister G Parameshwara on Monday alleged Electronic Voting Machine manipulations led to the defeat of Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance in just concluded assembly polls in Maharashtra.

While speaking to reporters here on Monday, he said the BJP does selective manipulations to convince people that there were no wrongdoings. He also wanted to go back to the paper ballots system.

The ruling BJP-led Mahayuti alliance in Maharashtra won a landslide victory in the assembly elections, shattering the Congress-led Maha Vikas Aghadi's dream to wrest power. The BJP won the highest ever 132 seats for the party, while the Shiv Sena led by Shinde bagged 57 seats and NCP won 41 seats to take the Mahayuti total to 230 seats. Congress as part of MVA won just 16 seats.

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"We analysed the Maharashtra poll outcome deeply. We felt that in many places EVMs were manipulated," Parameshwara said. He also said an obvious question would be why not it happened in Jharkhand and elsewhere. The manipulations are done selectively so that no one can question it, he blamed.

According to him, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha is a leading partner. Had the Congress been the leading partner, things would have changed. He backed the ballot papers saying that the same was discussed in Maharashtra Congress as well.

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