Karnataka Drug Case: CCB Raids The Bases Of Rikki Ray
Karnataka Drug Case: CCB raids the bases of Rikki Ray, son of ‘underworld don’. The Central Crime Branch (CCB) of Karnataka, which is investigating drug cases in the Kannada film industry, raided Rikki Ray’s hideouts and other places in the state.
Earlier, police investigating a narcotics case involving dancer-choreographer Kishore Aman Shetty arrested a man named Mohammad Shakir. Rikki Ray is the son of Muthappa Rai, an ‘underworld don’.
Muthappa died of brain cancer in May this year.According to police sources, raids were conducted in a farmhouse in Bidadi and Sadashivanagar in Ray’s Ramnagar district.
The case pertains to alleged drug abuse by a large number of people including Kannada film actress Ragini Dwivedi, Sanjana Galrani, rave party organizer Viren Khanna and building construction businessman Rahul Thons.
Aditya Alva, the son of former minister Jeevaraj Alva, is one of the few prominent accused in the case.
The CCB of the state police is investigating against many people, including celebrities of the film industry, in the case of substance use. The investigation was launched after the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) arrested three men with drugs in Bangalore last month. These people were allegedly supplying these intoxicants to Kannada film actors and singers.
YSR Congress may soon join NDA to give special status to Andhra Pradesh
The YSR Congress has said that it is ready to join the NDA to fulfill the promises made in the Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Act and give special status to the state.
Senior leader of YSR Congress and Chief Whip in Vidhan Sabha G. Srikanth Reddy said on Monday that the talk of joining our NDA is a complete speculation.
We have said earlier that without giving special status to the state, we cannot even think about it. Srikanth’s remarks come at a time when Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has left for New Delhi to attend a meeting on the water issue.
He is also scheduled to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Due to the news of Jagan’s proposed meeting with Modi, the political temperature of the state is hot and there is a possibility that YSR Congress may join the NDA.
