Mangaluru: Police seize MDMA, cocaine worth Rs 24 lakh; six held
Mangaluru (PTI): Six persons were arrested and synthetic drugs valued at over Rs 24 lakh were seized in two separate operations carried out by the City Crime Branch, officials said on Monday.
The suspects were identified as Chirag Sanil and Alwin Clinton D'Souza, both residents of Kavoor, after City Crime Branch (CCB) officers intercepted the two men on a scooter at Malli Layout, Gandhinagar, Kavoor on Sunday, they said.
Police recovered 111.83 grams of MDMA worth Rs 22.3 lakh from them.
According to police, preliminary investigations revealed that the drugs were sourced from an African national in Mumbai, financed by one Abdul Kareem from Malappuram, Kerala. Kareem was later arrested near Mangaluru Central Railway Station.
The same evening, acting on further inputs, the CCB officials raided the Central Warehouse area in Mannagudda. Three persons--Janan Jagannath, Rajesh Bangera, and Varun Ganiga--were caught with 21.03 grams of cocaine worth Rs 1.9 lakh, a senior police officer said.
Both cases have been registered under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, and the accused have been remanded to judicial custody, police said.
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PM Modi, myself don't have 'wife issue': Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi (PTI): In a friendly banter, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and he didn’t have "the wife issue", as the Congress MP emphasised that everyone has learnt from women in their lives.
Participating in a debate in the Lok Sabha on the three bills introduced for amendments to the women's quota law and setting up a delimitation commission, Gandhi said women are a driving force in the national imagination and national perspective.
"All of us in this room have been influenced, taught, and have learnt a lot from women in our lives – from mothers, sisters, wives," Gandhi said.
"Of course, the prime minister and myself don't have the wife issue, so we don't get that input, but we have our mothers and sisters," he said while referring to Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju's light-hearted remark that he got a scolding at home as he did not pen a poem for his wife like Union minister Arjun Ram Meghwal did.
Gandhi also lauded his sister and Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi's speech in the Lok Sabha on Thursday.
"Yesterday, I was watching my sister achieve in five minutes what I have not been able to do in 20 years of my political career – make Amit Shah Ji smile," Gandhi said to peals of laughter.
