Mangalore: Six Associates of Chota Shakeel Arrested, Attack Bid Foiled
Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (VM)
Mangalore, Dec 13: Six associates of underworld don Chota Shakeel, who had planned to kill a prominent person and then loot him, were arrested by CCB police at Kodialbail here on Wednesday December 12.
The arrested are Bombay Ravi (23) hailing from Bangalore, Suhail Ismail Sheik (23) from Moodbidri, Rama (33) from Bangalore, Purushottam (21), Devraj (25) and Vinod (23) from Mysore.
The police have also seized a Maruthi Zen car, 5 swords, chilly powder, 3 monkey caps, 9 mobile phones, 8 SIM cards of different network providers, 3 ATM cards, and Aadhar card from the accused.
As per the information received, Bombay Ravi and his four associates were involved in the murder of former corporator Chandrashekar Babu in 2009 in Bangalore. They were accomplices of Rowdy Parandaman. It is learnt that they reportedly arrived in Mangalore and even met murder-accused Rashid Malbari, who is an undertrial at the district sub jail.
Police sources said that with the guidance of Rashid Malbari, Bombay Ravi and other associates had planned to kill a prominent person in the city. Armed with this information, the police arrested them at Kodialbail and thus foiled their plans.
Amongst the six arrested, various cases have been booked against three in various stations at Bangalore. Suhail Ismail has a case against him in Ullal police station.
CCB inspector Dr HN Venkatesh Prasanna, DCIB inspector Vinay S Nayak, CCB PCI – Vishwanath K, Shyamsunder HM, DCIB SI Sanjeeva Purusha, CCB officials like Shashidar Shetty, Ganesh MP, Ganesh Kalladka, Chandrashekar, Sunil Kumar, Dinesh Bekal, Teja Kumar, DCIB officials like Chandra K, Palanivelu KM, Uday Rai, Tharanath, AI Iqbal, Vijaygowda K, Vasu Nayak among others were part of the investigation.