Bengaluru: CCB arrests actress Ragini in connection with Sandalwood drug racket case
Bengaluru: Sandalwood actress, Ragini Dwivedi was arrested by Bengaluru police's Central Crime Branch on Friday in connection with the Sandalwood's Drugs racket. The police has taken the actress into their custody for further investigation.
FIR is registered against one of Ragini’s close aid named Ravi Shankar on Thursday. Shankar in Police custody confessed of having contact with actress Ragini.
Bengaluru Police Commissioner Kamal Pant said, “We learned that the person working in the government office was related to someone in the film industry. While the CCB was investigating Ravi Shankar, we learned that he used to attend parties and provide drugs and also consume them."
Crime Branch obtained a search warrant from the court and raided Ragini's flat in Yelahanka on Friday morning. The search operation was carried for more than four hours.
Officers confiscated a laptop, Hard disk and a computer from Ragini's flat. Subsequently, Ragini was taken to the CCB office in Chamarajapete for further investigation.
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Govt clears procurement of ammunition for Pinaka rocket systems
New Delhi (PTI): The government is learnt to have cleared a proposal to procure ammunition for Pinaka multi-launch rocket systems at a cost of Rs 10,200 crore, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
Army Chief Gen Upendra Dwivedi on January 13 said that two Pinaka contracts -- one for high explosive pre-fragmented ammunition and another for area denial munitions -- are set to be inked before end of the current fiscal.
The people cited above said the procurement has been given the required go ahead.
The two types of ammunition are being procured for around six Pinaka regiments that the Army plans to deploy to bolster its combat prowess along the northern frontier with China.
The Army already has four regiments of Pinaka rocket systems.
While the Pinaka MK-I rocket system has a range of around 40 km, the Pinaka II variant can hit targets at a distance of 60 km.
The Army is enhancing the combat prowess of its artillery units along the frontier with China by procuring an array of weapons systems including an additional batch of 100 K9 Vajra howitzers, swarm drones, loitering munitions and surveillance systems.
