Shivamogga police have arrested three persons, including an Armed Reserve Sub-Inspector (ARSI), on the charge of hatching a conspiracy to murder a person and attempting to embroil another person in a drug case allegedly for social media posts criticising an independent church based in Thrissur, Kerala.
The arrested persons are Wilson James, 55, ARSI and a resident of Shivamogga, Alex alias Alexander, 42, of Bengaluru, and Afroz Ahmed, 37, of Bengaluru. A team of Shivamogga police has gone to Kerala as part of the investigation.
On July 17, the police received information that a person was carrying 2.3 kg of ganja (marijuana) in a bus going from Mangaluru to Ballari via Shivamogga. A team of officers stopped the private bus near Thirthahalli and searched the vehicle. They found a parcel of ganja. The police questioned the person seated close to the parcel.
