Police conduct surprise check in Mangaluru prison, find no contraband except cigarettes, beedis
Mangaluru, Apr 2: The Mangaluru city police carried out a surprise inspection inside the Dakshina Kannada district prison here on Sunday.
More than 250 police personnel led by City Police Commissioner Kuldeep Kumar R Jain and other officials carried out the raid.
The Commissioner later told reporters that the raid was part of a routine inspection. The police could not recover any banned items from the prison, except for cigarettes and beedi, which could have been brought by relatives of prisoners during visits, he said.
Jain said such inspections would be held by police to ensure that no illegal activities are taking place inside the prison.
The inspection lasted for one-and-a-half hours. The district prison here is being guarded by the State Industrial Security Force.
The commissioner also held talks with the jail superintendent on the checks carried out by the authorities in the prison and the substances recovered.
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Tirupati laddu row: Samples of Ayodhya Ram temple 'prasad' sent for testing
Ayodhya, Sep 27: The Food Safety and Drug Administration Department on Friday collected samples of 'elaichi daana' or cardamom seeds being distributed as 'prasad' at the Ram Janmabhoomi temple here and sent them for testing, officials said.
The action was taken following a complaint lodged through the Integrated Grievance Redressal System (IGRS), Assistant Food Commissioner Manik Chand Singh said.
Singh said the samples were procured from Haiderganj, where the cardamom seed offerings are prepared and sent to the Jhansi State Laboratory for comprehensive testing and evaluation.
Prakash Gupta, the officer in charge of the Ram Temple trust, revealed that on average, around 80,000 packets of cardamom seeds are distributed daily as a sacred offering.
Amid a row over the alleged presence of animal fat in laddus at the Tirupati Temple in Andhra Pradesh, the chief priest of the Ram temple here on Thursday questioned the purity of ghee being sold nationwide and said 'prasad' should be prepared under the supervision of temple priests only.
