Mangaluru: After taking strict action to control the drugs peddling in the city, the City Police Commissioner has given instructions to all PGs, hostels and service apartments to check illegal activities.

In his order, Commissioner Sandeep Patil said that the proprietors, managements and owners of hostels, PGs, service apartments and hostels run by education institutions should mandatorily take permissions from the authorities concerned. Following the order, the managements of such institutions should give their names, address, phone numbers and identity cards to the nearby police stations. Along with these, such managements should also give names of the students, their phone numbers and identity cards to the police stations. If foreign students are residing in such institutions, within 15 days of their admission, concerned managements should submit their complete details including Passport and Visa to the police stations.

The institutions should install CCTV cameras and keep the CCTV footage till 30 days and when asked, the institutions should provide them to the police. The Commissioner has given 15 days time to install the CCTV cameras.

The managements should restrict the entry on strangers into such hostels or PGs. They should take maximum care to check the illegal activities like drugs peddling and others. The Commissioner also directed not to conduct any programmes which could cause sound pollution.

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Mysuru (Karnataka) (PTI): A male leopard strayed into a house here on Friday, triggering panic among residents, forest officials said.

The incident occurred around 10 am at Siddhartha Layout in the city, they said.

According to officials, the leopard, estimated to be around three to four years old, entered the house of a resident identified as Suresh. The animal was found hiding beneath a cot in one of the rooms. Those in the house managed to escape and alerted forest department officials, who rushed to the spot along with veterinarians.

The leopard, suspected to have strayed from the Chamundi Hills or nearby forest areas, was eventually tranquilised. It was later safely shifted to the Mysuru Zoo, a senior forest official said.