Mangaluru: NIA team raids house in Ullal, arrests one person after day-long enquiry
Mangaluru: National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday raided a house in Ullal here in the city and arrested one person after the day-long enquiry.
A team of 20 NIA officers raided the house of BM Basha, a resident of Mastikatte in Ullal. The team arrived at the house around 5:30 in the morning and continued its raid till evening. The team then formally arrested Basha’s younger son Ammar for further investigation.
According to the reports, the NIA after producing Ammar before the court was planning to take him to Bengaluru or Delhi for further investigation.
Speaking to Vartha Bharati Basha stated that the enquiry was about his granddaughter and her husband who went missing about four years ago. We answered all the questions asked by the raiding team, he said.
“They were at our house from morning to evening. They checked our mobile phones and questioned about some of the videos they found on the phones. We answered them duly and cleared their doubts” he told Vartha Bharati.
“They seized my younger son’s mobile phone and questioned him over some videos found in it. My son answered them. The officers then said they will present him in the court and take him to Delhi for 10 days for “Counselling”. They have assured us that they will send him back if he is clean” he further said.
“We have utmost respect and trust in the judicial system of this country. We are law-abiding citizens and have never committed things against it. And we will continue doing so. We are confident that our son will return home soon clean” Basha further stated.
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Another North Goa nightclub sealed; Kejriwal says corruption led to fire tragedy
Panaji (PTI): As part of a crackdown against tourist establishments violating laws and safety norms in the aftermath of the Arpora fire tragedy, Goa authorities on Saturday sealed a renowned club at Vagator and revoked the fire department NOC of another club.
Cafe CO2 Goa, located on a cliff overlooking the Arabian Sea at Vagator beach in North Goa, was sealed. The move came two days after Goya Club, also in Vagator, was shut down for alleged violations of rules.
Elsewhere, campaigning for local body polls, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said the fire incident at Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at Arpora, which claimed 25 lives on December 6, happened because the BJP government in the state was corrupt.
An inspection of Cafe CO2 Goa by a state government-appointed team revealed that the establishment, with a seating capacity of 250, did not possess a no-objection certificate (NOC) of the Fire and Emergency Services Department. The club, which sits atop Ozrant Cliff, also did not have structural stability, the team found.
The Fire and Emergency Services on Saturday also revoked the NOC issued to Diaz Pool Club and Bar at Anjuna as the fire extinguishers installed in the establishment were found to be inadequate, said divisional fire officer Shripad Gawas.
A notice was issued to Nitin Wadhwa, the partner of the club, he said in the order.
Campaigning at Chimbel village near Panaji in support of his party's Zilla Panchayat election candidate, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kejriwal said the nightclub fire at Arpora happened because of the "corruption of the Pramod Sawant-led state government."
"Why this fire incident happened? I read in the newspapers that the nightclub had no occupancy certificate, no building licence, no excise licence, no construction licence or trade licence. The entire club was illegal but still it was going on," he said.
"How could it go on? Couldn't Pramod Sawant or anyone else see it? I was told that hafta (bribe) was being paid," the former Delhi chief minister said.
A person can not work without bribing officials in the coastal state, Kejriwal said, alleging that officers, MLAs and even ministers are accepting bribes.
