Three held, MDMA worth Rs 9 lakh seized in Mangaluru
Mangaluru, Aug 13: In a major operation, the city crime branch police (CCB) on Sunday arrested three drug peddlers and seized 170 gm of MDMA from their possession from near Bondel in the city.
The arrested have been identified as Imran (36) of Moodushedde, Amjad Khan (42) from Udupi and Abdul Basheer Abbas (39) from Manjanady, city police Commissioner Kuldeep Kumar R Jain told reporters here.
Acting on a reliable tip-off indicating that Imran, along with his associates, was indulging in the sale of MDMA near Bondel Padushedde, the CCB team led by ACP P A Hegde, carried out the targeted operation. The three accused had allegedly procured the MDMA from Bengaluru.
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Police also confiscated five MDMA pills, a vehicle, six mobile phones and a digital weighing scale from the arrested persons. The total estimated value of the seized assets is Rs 14.76 lakh.
The Commissioner said more persons are suspected to be involved in the drug trafficking racket and the crackdown on such activities will continue.
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PM Modi, RSS strengthening wall in path of SCs, STs, OBCs: Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi (PTI): Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the RSS were strengthening the wall standing in the path of Dalits, Adivasis and OBCs, even as he acknowledged that the UPA took steps to weaken that wall but not to the extent it should have.
Addressing the 'Samvidhan Rakshak Abhiyaan', Gandhi also referred to the function held on Constitution Day in Parliament and said that it is his guarantee, that "Modi has not read" the Constitution.
"If PM Modi would have read this book then what he does daily, he would not do it," Gandhi said, displaying a copy of the Constitution of India.
Gandhi said the country's whole system is pitted against Dalits, Adivasis and backward class people.
He said a wall obstructs the path of Dalits, Adivasis and OBCs and Modi and the RSS are strengthening that wall by "adding cement to it".
"Slowly the wall (obstructing the path of SCs, STs, OBCs) is getting strengthened. Earlier, the UPA government gave MGNREGA, the land acquisition act, the right to food...those were ways to weaken that wall. Today, when I look back, I can say the UPA government did not weaken the wall to the extent it should have, it did not do it as strongly as it should have," Gandhi said.
"However, we used to make efforts to weaken that wall but they (the BJP) are strengthening that wall by adding concrete," the former Congress president said.
Gandhi said a caste survey being carried out in Telangana is a historic step and the Congress will do the same wherever it comes to power.
