Anti-drug addiction campaign on Sept 27: WhiteField DCP Abdul Ahad
Bengaluru, September 26: WhiteField zone DCP Abdul Ahad said that the City Police department has organized a mega anti-drug addiction campaign to create awareness among youth at Phoenix Market City at Mahadevapura in the city on September 27 at 6.30 pm.
Speaking to Varthabharati here on Wednesday, the DCP said that nowadays, the youth have been facing danger due to drug addiction. For the last two months, the department has been conducting several awareness programmes across the city. Awareness programmes were conducted in schools and colleges and arrested those who sell drugs. As the campaign was completing two months, more than one thousand volunteers who worked with the police department in the programmes would take oath to join hands with the police to create awareness on drug addiction, he said.
Former International cricketer and ICC match referee Javagal Srinath, City police commissioner T. Sunil Kumar and other Senior Officers would take part in the campaign, he said.
The police would announce the slogan ‘From addiction to Health’. Phoenix Market City has provided the space to conduct the event and V.J. Rashmi would conduct the programme, he said.
The programme would have Body building event, Orchestra, Kalaripayattu, Martial art and screening of a documentary prepared by the Bengaluru police on effects of drug addiction. The guests and volunteers would perform an exercise to give a message against the drug addiction, he said and appealed the people of Bengaluru to participate in the campaign in more number to create awareness on drug addiction and its impact on society.
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Family of injured driver in murder of Suvendu's aide seeks exemplary punishment
Kolkata (PTI): The family of Buddhabeb Bera, the driver injured in the shooting that killed BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari's close aide Chandranath Rath, demanded exemplary punishment for those responsible and urged the new government to ensure such incidents do not happen in West Bengal.
Rath was shot dead in Madhyamgram near Kolkata on Wednesday night, triggering a political storm in the state. Bera, who was driving the vehicle at the time of the attack, sustained gunshot wounds and is currently undergoing treatment at a private hospital.
Family members said they learned about the incident through television and immediately left for Kolkata.
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"We came to know from TV reports that my nephew had been shot. We still do not know who carried out the attack or why it happened," Buddhabeb's uncle Biswajit Bera said.
"Our only wish now is that he recovers and returns home safely," he added.
Buddhabeb, 25, hails from Majnaberia village in the Chandipur police station area in Purba Medinipur district.
According to family members, he mostly stays in Kolkata for work and visits home occasionally during weekends.
Besides his parents, his younger brother, sister-in-law and several relatives have also travelled to Kolkata following the incident.
Demanding strict action against the perpetrators, the uncle said, "We want the government to conduct a proper investigation and identify those directly involved in the crime. They should be given exemplary punishment so that such incidents do not happen again in West Bengal and no other family has to go through this grief."
A neighbour, Ranjana Ghorai, also sought stringent punishment for those behind the attack.
"In our neighbourhood, we call him Sona. We want exemplary punishment for the people responsible for this incident," she said.
Rath's family members have demanded life imprisonment for the accused, while Adhikari has called for capital punishment for those involved in the killing.
