Bengaluru: A day after raiding the house of former BBMP corporator and rowdy V. Nagaraj alias ‘Bomb’ Naga in Srirampura, the police on Saturday detained three members of his gang to know his whereabouts.
Naga managed to escape from the terrace of his house, even as the police struggled to get into his fortress-like, five-storeyed house. The police conducted the raid after Umesh filed a complaint of abduction against him. The police found Rs 14.80 crore in scrapped currency notes in his house along with property documents worth crores and lethal weapons.
The police on Saturday detained Appi, Mani and another gang member, but could not get any details from them on Naga’s whereabouts.
On Friday, the police raided four places and retrieved documents, which are being scrutinised. Nagaraj’s two sons – Gandhi and Shastry – are also accused in the case and are absconding. The police teams, which have been formed to investigate the case, searched for him in his farmhouse in Hesarghatta in Nelamangala but did not get any leads. The search operation has been further intensified.
The police are in the process of sharing the information with Income Tax Department and Enforcement Directorate.
The police are also thinking of invoking sections of the stringent Karnataka Control of Organized Crimes Act.
