Mangaluru, Dec 22: Pandeshwar police have arrested three accused including a minor in connection with extorting a mobile phone and gold chain from Nagesh D at Bal Bhavan Park near the service bus in the city stand last Thursday.
The police have seized a mobile phone, a gold chain and some cash from the accused.
According to a complaint lodged by reporter Nagesh D at Pandeshwar police station, he had been sitting on a bench in the said park last Thursday when two unknown persons approached him, verbally abused him and demanded his Samsung mobile phone. When he refused, the two assaulted him, snatched his mobile phone and pulled his gold chain weighing 8 grams worth Rs 20,000 and fled the scene.
Nagesh, who was injured in the assault, received treatment in the district Wenlock Hospital.
On Saturday, based on a tip-off, Pandeshwar police station inspector Dinakar Shetty and other personnel took custody of Ganesh Poojary and Mohammed Farhan on the footpath adjacent to Nehru Maidan.
After intense questioning, the two accused confessed to the crime. During questioning, it was also revealed that they had sold the mobile phone and gold chain at lower prices to a certain Mohammed Ashraf from Ullal. Based on this information, the police also arrested Ashraf on Saturday.
The three accused were produced before court and remanded to judicial custody.
Accused Ganesh Poojary had served a sentence in a theft case in Kadri police station limits. He is also an accused in connection with the theft case of ballot boxes from the deputy commissioner's office premises.
The police also informed that accused Mohammed Ashraf is an accused in a case regarding communal clashes in Ullal police station limits.
Ganesh Poojary and Mohammed Ashraf are kept in Mangalore Prison while minor Mohammed Farhan was sent to a remand home in Shivamogga.
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