Mangaluru, Feb 19: The city crime branch of Mangaluru city police is claimed to have thwarted a murder and robbery plot by arresting six men after intercepting two vehicles near Tannirbhavi beach on the outskirts of the city on Sunday.
The arrested have been identified as Safwan Hussain (33), Mohammed Faisal Ibrahim Sheik (33) and Shamshuddin (27), all residents of Surathkal, Abdul Naseer alias Don Naseer (34) from Yemmekere, Umar Farooq alias Mana Farooq (25) and Mohammed Ansar (30), both from Ullal.
K M Shantharaju, deputy commissioner of police, told media persons here on Sunday that acting on a credible information the sleuths of CCB intercepted the Swift car and an auto-rickshaw on Tannirbhavi beach road and nabbed the six suspects.
He said that the arrested had plotted to kill a person for ‘supari’ and rob the houses of a few effluent persons in the city. Two pistols, seven live bullets, two knives and three mobile phones were sized from the miscreants along with the car and the auto-rickshaw in the operation, he said.
The accused and the materials seized from them have been handed over to the Panambur police for further investigation, the DCP said, adding that the arrested were wanted in many other criminal cases too.
Among the arrested, Safwan Hussain is already facing 23 charges including murder, attempt-to-murder, abduction, theft and assault on police. He had been arrested, booked under Goonda Act and jailed in the past, bunt managed to obtain bail two months ago.
Abdul Naseer, Mohammed Faisal and Umar Farooq are facing nine, eight and three criminal cases respectively in various police stations, while Mohammed Ansar was about to enter the crime world, the police said.
The kidnapped schoolboy was rescued by the police and reunited with his parents. Son of a gift shop owner from Basavanagudi area in Bengaluru, Chirag has reportedly told police that decided to make some quick money to spend on cricket betting and gambling after learning kidnap tricks from the ‘Crime Patrol’. According to police, Chirag reached a private school around 3pm on Tuesday on a Bounce rental bike and zeroed in on a fourth standard student who was walking out of school. He told the boy he was his father's friend and that he required help to search for a relative who had gone missing. The boy believed Chirag and rode pillion on the bike. Chirag then engaged the boy in conversation and learnt about his father's business and got his mobile phone number. He then made a call to the boy's father, demanded Rs 5 lakh and warned him against approaching cops. However, the boy's father alerted Cottonpet police and special teams were formed to crack the case. While Cottonpet inspector Venkatesh TC's squad verified CCTV footage in and around the school, Chamarajpet inspector BG Kumaraswamy's team started tracking the suspect's mobile phone movements. An hour later, the suspect's location was traced to a hotel on the Lavelle Road-St Mark's Road stretch. Police rushed there, rescued the boy and arrested Chirag.
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All of those arrested belong to the religion of peace.
Interesting story.
Police arrested these people outside mangalore court, they came to attend case in court after they finished with the court they were arrested by police , they didnt have any weapon with dem.
They are not belong to Sri Ram Sena???
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