Mangaluru: Mangaluru City police busted a gambling centre in Surathkal police limits on Sunday.
The centre was facilitating ‘andar-bahar’ gambling in a lodge at Mukka. Nine people, including the manager of the lodge and his assistant were arrested. The cops also seized Rs 26,000 in cash, nine mobile phones, playing cards and a car from the spot.
Commissioner of police Kuldeep Kumar R Jain said seven people were engaged in gambling. A case also has been booked against two staff for allowing gambling inside the lodge.
The arrested are Lal Sab, 31, Ameer Ghanisab, 31, Dastageer Sahib, 32, Siddanna, 47, Mohammed Rafeeq, 34, Prashurama, 29, Jithendra Hira Singh, 34, Babu Chandrashekar, 62 and Rakshith, 23.
Drug peddlers nabbed
Konaje police arrested two persons for possessing 20 grams of Methamphetamine, a recreational drug, at Nethilapadavu on Sunday.
Police said that the arrested were identified as Abdul Rasheed Moideen, 41, a resident of KC Road in Talapady and Arif alias Haris, 40, from Deralakatte. The police had recovered 20 grams of Methamphetamine and a scooter worth Rs 1,06,500 from them.
Car-borne gang rob tanker driver
A car-borne gang waylaid a tanker and robbed the driver of cash worth Rs 6,000 and documents near Gadi Temple in Shiradi on Mangaluru–Bengaluru national highway on Sunday.
Driver of the tanker, Oscar Vincent Soans, a resident of Kadambodi in Surathkal, sustained injuries on his hands and eyes as he was assaulted. Soans said he was driving the tanker filled with Bitumen from Kuloor, along with cleaner Tausif, when the incident took place.
A man alighted from a private bus and waylaid the tanker and then a gang arrived in the car and assaulted the driver before fleeing with cash and documents, police said.
Youth succumbs to injuries
A 28-year-old youth succumbed to the injuries he sustained in an accident. The deceased is Tejas Kulal, a resident of Madoor in Kotekar.
He had suffered grievous injuries after a car rammed into his two-wheeler at Sankolige on June 4. Kulal, who was working as a mechanic in a private firm, had slipped into a coma following the accident and died on Monday. Mangaluru South Traffic police registered a case.
Rowdy-sheeters’ houses searched
The city police carried out a special drive and searched the houses of 148 rowdy-sheeters and Modus Operandi Bureau (MOB) card holders. The surprise drives will continue as part of preventive measures, said the police commissioner.