Mysuru, June 19 -- Mysuru City Police have intensified their crackdown on habitual offenders by placing a notorious rowdy-sheeter under preventive detention under the Goonda Act.

According to a press release issued by the office of the City Police Commissioner, K. Kaushik, 28, a resident of Janatha Street in Koorgalli, was arrested under the provisions of the Karnataka Control of Organised Crimes and Goonda Act following his involvement in a series of serious criminal offences.

Active within the Vijayanagar Police Station limits, Kaushik has been named in nine criminal cases registered across multiple jurisdictions. These include two cases each in Vijayanagar and H.D. Kote and one case each in Channapatna Rural and Yelwal.

The charges ag...