Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, Feb 6: India is busy completing processes needed to hasten handing over process of underworld fugitive, Ravi Poojary, who has been arrested in Senegal, West Africa. The task of translating criminal cases registered against Ravi Poojary in different parts of Karnataka and other states into English and local language of that country is now progressing

Once documents are complete, they would be submitted to Interpol and Indian embassy at Dakar, capital of Senegal, for being handed over to the police department of that country. Sources claim that these things will take a while and therefore it might take several days for Poojary to be brought to India.

The police have got information that a former underworld element had helped Ravi Poojary to get fake passport from Mandya. For this purpose, Ravi had produced an identity card purported to have been issued by the country, Burkina Faso. It has come to light that Ravi Poojary had got several documents prepared in his name which would have enabled him to live in several African nations for a number of years.

Poojary's arrest was published by a number of newspapers in Senegal in the front page. The newspapers there reported that Poojary, who used to call hundreds of people in India including Bollywood stars for protection money, stands arrested with help from the Interpol.

It is said that Ravi Poojary, who is in the custody of Senegal police, is suffering from fever now. The police there reportedly contacted his wife, who too is hiding in an African country but she denied having anything to do with Poojary.