Mangaluru: The Surathkal Police on Tuesday arrested a young individual accused of making derogatory remarks in a video posted on social media against Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar.

The arrested accused has been identified as Anil Kumar (34), a resident of Ajjarani in Sirsi Taluk of Uttara Kannada district. Anil is learnt to be residing in the city’s Surathkal Kana in a rented house and was working as a tourist car driver.

The accused reportedly recorded a video, wherein he passed derogatory remarks about the Chief Minister and the Deputy Chief Minister and circulated it on social media.

The accused who was attempting to include his name in the ration card in order to benefit from various government schemes of the government, was not able to perform the action from the past three months pertaining to server and other issues, frustrated out of which the accused recorded and circulated the video on social media, said the police.

It has been learnt that the police have registered a case under IPC section 153A, 505(i)(c), 504 against the accused Anil Kumar at the Surathkal police station.

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Srinagar (PTI): Property worth Rs 1 crore belonging to a notorious drug peddler was on Saturday attached in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar, police said.

A double-storey house on eight marlas of land situated at Wantpora Eidgah, belonging to Basit Bilal Dar, a notorious drug peddler, valued at approximately Rs 1 crore, a police spokesperson said.

He said Dar is involved in two cases registered under various sections of the NDPS Act.

During investigation, it was established that the accused had acquired the said property through illicit proceeds generated from drug trafficking activities, the spokesperson said.

Consequently, the property was attached under the provisions of the NDPS Act. The attachment proceedings were conducted in the presence of the two independent witnesses, strictly in accordance with the prescribed legal procedures, he said.

As per the attachment order, the owner has been restrained from selling, leasing, transferring, altering, or creating any third-party interest in the property till further orders, the spokesperson added.