Bengaluru: The city police have arrested two associates of former corporator and rowdy sheeter V. Nagaraj, who is absconding after a police raid on his house. The accused have been identified as Sujith, 28, and Srihari, 26, a bouncer. Police said that Sujith, a resident of Sriramapura and was working in an office that distributes SIM cards in Vijayanagar.
“He has been arrested on charges of issuing multiple SIM cards to Nagaraj using the documents of other customers. Using those SIM cards, Nagaraj is still in touch with some of his associates and is managing to dodge police who are on the lookout for him,” an official said.
The other accused Srihari was allegedly raiding Nagaraj’s house, whenever people brought huge amount of demonetised currency for exchange.“Srihari along with 3-4 associates was raiding the house posing as CCB police and extorted money from people. It was all done at the behest of Naga. We are on the lookout for two of his associates,” the official added.
