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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Bengaluru police arrest 6 from TN's Coimbatore in dacoity case
Bengaluru (PTI): Six persons were arrested from Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore district in connection with a dacoity case here, police said on Sunday.
The police seized two two-wheelers, four mobile phones, and two laptops worth Rs 3 lakh from the accused.
The accused allegedly trespassed into a house here and threatened the occupants with deadly weapons, earlier this month.
According to police, the complainant, a resident of Pavamana Nagar within the limits of Konanakunte Police Station, submitted a complaint on April 18. He was a college student, originally from Kerala. He, along with six other students, resided in the house and all were pursuing studies at the same college.
On the night of April 17, around late hours, six unknown persons aged between 20-25 years unlawfully entered the house. They assaulted the occupants with their hands and a knife, causing bleeding injuries, threatened them, and robbed them of Rs 10,000 cash, four mobile phones, two laptops, and a two-wheeler, they said, adding that based on the complaint, a dacoity case was registered.
During the investigation, the police conducted inquiries from various angles and gathered credible information through informants. the an official release said, adding, the accused were later picked up from Coimbatore.
The police recovered the stolen laptops, mobile phones, a two-wheeler belonging to the complainant, and another one used in the commission of the offence, they said.
"Upon interrogation, all six accused confessed to their involvement in the offence."
The six accused were produced before a court, which remanded them to judicial custody, they added.
