Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)
Bengaluru, Sep 8: The slueths of the Central Crime Bureau (CCB), who have succeeded in getting cine actress Ragini Dwivedi into their custody for five more days, are now concentrating on the bank transactions of the actress.
The CCB personnel have arrested Niyaz, a native of Kerala, who is said to be a drug peddler having contacts with Ragini and some other accused persons. They have found that Ragini had some financial dealings with an African national named Loum Pepper Samba, who was arrested a few days back. Sources revealed that the police personnel have gained access to bank account details of the actress and also some more information from her WhatsApp account.
CCB sources stated that the fourth accused, Prashanth Ranka, who happens to be an entrepreneur, has been taken into custody. The CCB police, who questioned Prithvi Shetty from Mangaluru for two days, let her go on Monday night.
Niyaz has been a resident of Indiranagar here since the last few years. He is involved with real estate and second hand cars business. He also runs clubs at Indiranagar and near Whitefield. The police said that he also owns an advertising agency which publishes advertisements about fashion shows.
During the last some days, the CCB police have arrested 28 persons and taken into custody drugs worth over two crore rupees. Foreigners, people from neighbouring states and students are among the arrested persons. A son of police personnel, identified as Vishwas, who works for a kebab shop, used to peddle drugs during spare time, happens to be one among the peddlers. Some of the arrested persons are drug addicts, who have turned into peddlers over a period of time. The drugs so seized include MDMA, LSD, ganja, cocaine, brown sugar, crystal and hydro ganja. City police commissioner, Kamal Pant, stated that 28 persons who bought high end intoxicants through darknet website for sale in the city have been arrested. They mainly targetted IT-BT employees and youngsters,Pant added.
It is said that ganja was found being grown in the city on terrace. The police have recovered drugs worth Rs 66 lac from Vishwas, and arrested another man, Ambaresh,who reportedly supported Vishwas in the drug trade.
Kamal Pant said in a press meet he addressed on Monday that ganja has been confiscated from the limits of almost all the police stations in the city. He confirmed that the son of another police personnel, who happens to be an engineer, also has got transformed into a peddler. He informed that marijuana is being grown in a terrace at J P Nagar here. The police have seized marijuana plants from a studentm Aditya, an engineering student of BMS college here.
The police who have so far cracked ten cases, have laid their hands on 187 kg ganja, 950 grams hashish, 25 gras hydro ganja, 492 grams MDMA, four grams cocaine, five MDMA tablets, five LSD strips, and eight ganja plants grown in pots.