Mangaluru: 200 kg of ganja seized from truck, four held
Mangaluru, May 26: A total of 200 kg of ganja was seized from a truck transporting fish near here on Wednesday, police sources said.
Four persons have been arrested in this connection, city police commissioner N Shashi Kumar told reporters.
The arrested have been identified as Mohammed Farooq (24) from Kasargod, Sayyed Mohammed (31) from Kushalnagar, Mohammed Ansar (23) from Mudipu and Mohiudeen Nawaz (34) from Kasargod.
He said while following up a dacoity case under Moodbidri police station limits, the investigating team received information that a huge quantity of ganja is being brought from Thoni Andhra in Visakhapatnam.
It was revealed that the ganja was coming from Hassan.
The four accused were escorting the truck in a car from Hassan.
On the way, they divided and supplied the ganja at many places.
When the truck reached near Mangaluru, it was intercepted by the police, he said.
The Commissioner said the accused were planning to supply ganja in Mangaluru, Kodagu, Hassan and Kasaragod.
The fish truck was transporting the ganja from Andhra to Kerala.
Other people involved in the network would also be arrested soon, he said.
Along with the truck and 200 kg ganja, a car, four swords, Wi-Fi set and four mobile phones were also confiscated.
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Congress demands JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna's arrest amid sexual abuse allegations against him
Bengaluru (PTI): The Congress on Monday held protests in Karnataka demanding the immediate arrest of Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna, who is facing allegations of sexually abusing hundreds of women.
Congress workers -- with women members joining in large numbers -- took to the streets in Hubballi, Hassan and Bengaluru, among other places, seeking action against the 33-year-old grandson of JD(S) chief and former prime minister H D Deve Gowda.
In Bengaluru, the protest was led by All India Mahila Congress President Alka Lamba outside the office of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee.
Lamba said the horrifying case of sexual violence against hundreds of women has shocked the nation.
"More than 3,000 videos with hundreds of women being sexually harassed, violated and even brutalised by MP Prajwal Revanna over the past few years have shaken the conscience of Kannadigas and Indians alike," she said.
The Congress government in Karnataka on Sunday constituted a Special Investigation Team to investigate the allegations against the Hassan MP and Lok Sabha poll candidate after several videos of Revanna allegedly sexually abusing women came into the public domain.
The explicit video clips allegedly involving Prajwal started making the rounds in Hassan in recent days.
The JD(S) joined the NDA in September last year.
Prajwal is the NDA candidate in Hassan Lok Sabha constituency, which went to the polls on April 26.
According to police sources, he fled the country after voting was over as the videos began surfacing.
The Karnataka government started an SIT investigation after a letter by Chairperson of Women’s Commission Dr Nagalakshmi Chowdhary to the government regarding the sexual abuse of hundreds of women allegedly by Revanna.
The three-member SIT of IPS officers is led by the Additional Director General of Police (CID) Bijay Kumar Singh, while the other two members are Assistant Inspector General of Police Suman D Pennekar and Mysuru Superintendent of Police Seema Latkar.
The SIT has been directed to complete its investigation swiftly.
