Mangalore, February 8: The four associates of fugitive Ravi Poojary arrested by sleuths of district crime intelligence bureau (DCIB) on Sunday have been remanded to judicial custody for 15 days. The four associates nabbed are Mohammad Ali alias Munna, and Riyaz, residents of Uppala, and Vishwanatha, and Raghunatha, residents of Kulai. Police recovered a 9 mm pistol, 10 live rounds, eight cell phones and a car from the accused.
Police officials familiar with the case said the accused on instruction from Manish Shetty, now lodged in Bangalore jail under directions from fugitives Ravi Poojary and Kari Yogish hatched a conspiracy to eliminate Prabhakar Chowta, a Kasargod based businessman. Chowta, a former Congress ZP member had allegedly tried to take his cut in a extortion deal call made by Ravi Poojary to M T Mohammed, a businessman in Paivalike in Kasargod district.
Poojary, who wanted to teach Chowta a lesson for interfering in his extortion business hired Mohammad Ali, and Riyaz to deal with Chowta or at least send him a strong message and the other two locals to supply the firearm to them. The arrests of the associates of Ravi Poojary has further crippled the fugitives efforts to take control of a thriving extortion racket that the law enforcers in Dakshina Kannada and Kerala have succeeded to keep under tight leash.
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