Daijiworld News Network - Mangalore (GA)
Mangalore, Jan 5: The special police team set up by SP B Dayananda to investigate the Sukhanand Shetty murder case is doing a commendable job. Pandeshwar police inspector Venkatesh Prasanna who is leading the team has achieved major breakthrough in the case by arresting the mastermind Mulki Rafiq. However, there are many more persons who are either directly or indirectly involved in the murder who are yet to be nabbed.
Meanwhile one of them, that is, Mohammad Ashraf (40) was arrested at Kundapur in Udupi district on Thursday January 4 by the police. He is a resident of Mulki and had played a major role in the murder by reaching to Mulki Rafiq to pay a sum of Rs 50,000 while the latter was in Kunigal. The sum was handed over to him by Mulki TP vice-president Abubakkar's son Asir. With this, it is also established that Abubakkar's both sons were part of the entire conspiracy. While Shakir was the first one to be arrested by the police, now Asir too is on the verge of arrest.
However, he is in Dubai right now. He had come down from Dubai only a couple of months before Sukhanand Shetty's murder and gone back to Dubai seven days after the murder. It is said that Asir had arranged Rs 1 lac for the murder out of which Rs 50,000 was paid to Mulki Rafiq through Ashraf.
So far the police have arrested 13 persons including Bullet Sudhir alias Atik who was encountered in connection with the murder of Sukhanand Shetty.
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