Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, Jan 16: Police personnel of city crime branch (CCB) in the city have arrested Khalid alias Koya (24), a resident of Saleh Jumma Masjid in Ulaibettu, who is said to have planned and executed communal disturbances in Ulaibettu. The accused was thereafter turned over to the rural police here.

It is gathered that he was taken into custody from a bus stand near the arch of Magrantaya Daivasthana at Tuppekallu near Arkula here. As per the police claim, Khalid had been instrumental in inciting communal disturbance near a Nagabana near Ulaibettu Bridge. In this case, houses of some people of another community were looted with the specific purpose of creating disturbances in the society. He had then gone underground, the police claimed.

Khalid also faces a case of attacking Khadri Beary from Ulaibettu in 2006 and threatening to kill him. In 2007 he had attacked some sand traders and posed life threat to them in 2007. In 2009 he was involved with attempt to murder Abubakker from Ulaibettu, and Nasir. He also has been booked in a case in which Harish Poojary and Vishwanath Poojary from Ulaibettu were assaulted and threatened to kill them, it is said.

The arrest was made by CCB inspector, Valentine D'Souza, sub-inspector, Shyam Sundar, and other personnel, acting under the directions of city police commissioner, S Murugan, and guidance of deputy commissioners of police, Santosh Babu and N Vishnuvardhan.