Three youngsters held for murder of rowdy sheeter Pavan Raj

Mangaluru, Jul 27: Three youngsters have been arrested by Mangaluru City Police in connection with the murder of rowdy sheeter Pavan Raj Shetty. The arrested are Bipin Jogi (29), Charan (22), and Harish Poojary (28), all said to be local residents who knew the victim personally for years.

Pavan, son of murdered rowdy sheeter Rohidas Shetty alias Vamanjoor Rohi, was hacked death at a deserted house some metres away from his house at Kuttipalke in Vamanjoor in the intervening night of July 24 and 25.
The accused were nabbed a police team headed by H Shivaprakash, PI, Mangaluru Rural PS at KSRTC bus station in Puttur at 11.30am on Tuesday, city police chief T R Suresh said.

Acting on a complaint from Karthik R Shetty, brother of Pavan Raj, city police authorities had set up the team under the leadership of ACP, Mangaluru south sub-division. Acting on leads about involvement of people known to Pavan, police zeroed in on the assailants.
Preliminary investigation by the police had indicated personal rivalry as the motive behind the gruesome murder.

Pavan was involved in various crimes including attempt to murder at a young age. The assailants who had enmity attacked Pavan with sharp weapons at an abandoned house site and he died on the spot. They had recovered two lethal weapons used for the crime from the spot. Pavan had received injuries on neck, head and face and bled to death.

Incidentally, Pavan was killed barely 100 metres from his house in a 12-hour window from 6pm on July 24. Pavan was recently released on bail and used to spending most of the day at home. His evening was spent playing cricket at a nearby ground with his friend, a place that his rivals too used to play. Pavan identified as gangster at a young age wanted to avenge death of his father, also a notorious rowdy. He was facing trial in Nagesh Poojary murder and other cases.

Rohidas was murdered at Jyotinagar, Vamanjoor on July 5, 2009, when Pavan was in high school and entered the world of crime in 2014, when he along with two others attacked Santosh Kottari, an accused in the murder of his father at Vamanjoor check post. Pavan, then 18-years, allegedly attacked Kottari with a small knife used in cock fights. CCB sleuths arrested Pavan and two persons on charge of plotting to kill a businessman and carrying lethal weapon in 2015.

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