Three men found consuming MDMA held by Bantwal police; Rs 5k worth drugs seized
Bantwal: Three men accused of consumption and sale of narcotics (MDMA) were arrested by Bantwal Town Police, who also confiscated things worth lakhs of rupees from the trio.
The arrested men are identified as Mohammad Imtiaz and Younus of Bastigudde in Nandavara and Mohammad Iqbal, resident of Purusharakatte in Narimogaru village, Puttur taluk.
They were arrested by police personnel who were on beat. The policemen, led by Sub-inspector Ramakrishna, noticed a car parked near Hotel Gousia in Nandavara and the men inside the vehicle. Turning suspicious, they inspected further and found that the men inside the car were consuming narcotics.
The police team, which arrested the three men, has seized 2.99 gram MDMA worth Rs 5,000, five empty plastic covers, a car worth Rs 30 lakh and four mobile phones worth Rs 45,000 from them.
Bantwal Town Police have registered a case and the officers are conducting further investigation.
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Time has come to decriminalise defamation law: Supreme Court
New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court has observed that the time has come to decriminalise the defamation law, while agreeing to examine a plea by the Foundation for Independent Journalism seeking to quash the summons issued to it in a criminal defamation case.
A bench of Justices M M Sundresh and Satish Chandra Sharma issued notice to former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) professor Amita Singh.
The apex court passed the remark while hearing the plea of the organisation, which runs The Wire news portal, and its political affairs editor Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta.
"I think time has come to decriminalise all this..." Justice Sundresh observed orally.
The top court was hearing a plea challenging a trial court order issuing summons to them in a defamation case filed by the former JNU professor over the publication of the dossier.
The complainant had argued before the lower court that the accused people had launched a hate campaign against her to malign her reputation.
This is the second round of litigation on the alleged defamatory report published by the portal.
The Delhi High Court in 2023 had quashed the summons issued to them. The top court, however, reversed the order and remanded the matter for fresh consideration before the trial court.
The trial court again issued a summons, and the high court also upheld it.
