Gold worth Rs 25 lakh seized at Mangalore International Airport in two separate cases

January 27, 2014

Mangalore, Jan 27: Custom officials at Mangalore International Airport seized gold weighing 821.57 grams valued at Rs 24, 81,142 on Sunday in two separate cases.

In the first case, officers seized seven gold objects, comprising three gold strips, one silver colour painted key made of gold, one silver colour nail cutter made of gold, one square block of gold and a silver colour painted elected shaver head piece made of gold, weighing 558.590 grams valued at Rs 16.86 lakh. This was recovered from carton box in the possession of passenger Mohammed Azharuddeen, a resident of Fashitha Manzil, Kunnil in Kasargod district.

In the second case, officers seized 15 gold pieces totally weighing 262.980 grams concealed in three LED lights and kept in a carton box from the possession of Abdul Nazer Koottachal, resident of Juma Masjid Road, Cherkala under Chengala post office in Kasargod. The value of gold seized from him is Rs 7.94 lakh. While Mohammed arrived at MIA on board Jet Airways flight 9W531 at 5.30am, Abdul reached at 7.30am on Air India Express flight IX814.

During the last one week, the customs officers at MIA have totally detected four cases of concealment of gold in different modus operandi and the total gold seized in these cases is Rs 58, 09,336 weighing 1,929.59 grams, D Purushottam, commissioner of customs stated.

Purushottam said further investigation is under progress in both the cases. Operations were carried under the supervision of Krishna Kumar Prasad, assistant commissioner of customs, MIA. Statements of the accused have been recorded under section 108 of the Customs Act. On Saturday, Customs officials had seized six gold bars weighing 10 tolas from a passenger who arrived from Dubai. The gold bars weighing 699.84 grams valued at Rs 21.13-lakh.

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BJP fields Kishore Kumar Puttur from DK-Udupi Local Authorities’ Constituency

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October 1,2024

The BJP has selected Kishore Kumar Puttur as its candidate for the bypoll to Karnataka Legislative Council from Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Local Authorities’ Constituency. The by-election will be held on October 21.

Kishore Kumar is presently serving as the General Secretary of Dakshina Kannada BJP unit. He had served as vice president of State BJP Yuva Morcha from 2014 to 2016.

The by-election will be held to the seat vacated by Kota Srinivas Poojary of the BJP who has been elected as the Lok Sabha member from Udupi-Chikmagaluru Lok Sabha constituency. The vacancy was created on June 15, 2024 following Poojary’s resignation to the Council. His term in the council was till January, 2028.

In the last Council election held for the dual member constituency in December 2021, Poojary had secured 3,672 votes while the Congress candidate Manjunath Bhandary had secured 2079 votes. Poojary and Bhandary had secured required votes from the first preferential votes and had won the election.

There were several aspirants for the BJP ticket including former MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, DK BJP president Satish Kumpala, Mangaluru divisional in-charge Uday Kumar Shetty, former minister Pramod Madhwaraj and former Udupi district BJP president Kuilady Suresh Nayak.

The Congress is yet to announce its candidate for the election. KPCC working president Manjunath Bhandary in a recent press meet in Mangaluru had said that an opportunity will be given to congress leaders from Udupi district to contest by-election.

The Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Local Authorities’ Constituency has 6037 voters including 3551 from Dakshina Kannada comprising eight MLAs, one MP. The last date for filing nomination is October 3 and the last date for withdrawal of nomination is October 7. The counting will be held on October 24.

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