Mangaluru: Konaje police on Sunday, June 13 intercepted a car at Natekal, Manjanady, and arrested two persons who were transporting banned MDMA drugs.
Shafik and Altaf, Kasargod residents, were stopped and interrogated based on a tip-off. They admitted to possessing the contraband substance and claimed to have purchased it in Bengaluru’s Kammanahalli.
The cops seized 65 grams of MDMA drugs worth Rs 3.9 lakh from the accused.
The police also seized the duo’s white Swift car worth Rs 5 lac and four mobile phones worth Rs 11,000.
The operation was conducted by Nataraj, ACP traffic, Konaje police inspector Prakash Devadiga, PSI Mallikarjuna Biradara, Sharanappa Bhandary, ASI Mohan, staff Nagaraja Lamani, Ashok, Purushotham, Manjunath and Shivakumar under guidance from assistant police commissioner Ranjith Kumar Bandaru, on directions from Hariram Shanker, deputy police commissioner law and order.
