Mangaluru: One arrested for having drugs and valuables worth Rs 3.2 lakh seized
Mangaluru, September 27: The CCB police on Thursday arrested an accused who was trying to sell MDMA (Methylenedioxymethamphetamine) here and recovered drugs worth Rs 3.15 lakh from him.
The arrested is identified as Muhammad Shafi (32) of 2nd Block in Katipalla. The Police recovered 90 gram of banned MDMA drugs worth Rs 3.15 lakh, mobile phone, digital weighing machine and cash worth Rs 3,20,500 from him.
Acting on a tip-off that the accused has been trying to sell the drug which was brought from Mumbai, in Mangaluru, the CCB police arrested him. It is said that the accused was bringing the drug from Mumbai and selling here. He has sold the drug to many people in the city against which, the police started investigation. The CCB police handed over the accused and the recovered materials to Kankanady police for further action.
CCB Inspector Shantaram, PSI Shamsundar and staffs involved in the operation.
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3 killed, 15 injured as auto-rickshaw hits multiple vehicles in Thane
Thane (PTI): Three persons were killed and 15 others injured when an auto-rickshaw hit a bus and some other vehicles on a highway in Maharashtra's Thane district on Wednesday morning, police said.
The accident took place at 4.15 am on Mumbai-Agra highway near Khinavli bridge at Ghoteghar village in Shahapur taluka, they said.
The auto-rickshaw driver lost control over the wheels. As a result, the vehicle hit the road-divider, jumped the lane and collided with a private luxury bus, two cars and a tempo coming from the opposite direction, an official from Shahapur police station told PTI.
Three occupants of the bus died on the spot and 15 other persons, including the auto-rickshaw driver, were injured, he said.
The bus was on way from Nashik to Mumbai, the official said.
After being alerted, local police along with the emergency response teams rushed to the spot.
The injured persons were admitted to Shahapur sub-hospital and three of them were reported to be in a serious condition, the official said.
The bodies were sent to a government hospital for post-mortem, the police added.
