Man Held For Supplying Businessmen’s Details To Underworld Operative
Suresh Amin of Yermal Bada village of Kaup taluk was arrested after police continued their investigation into eight extortion cases registered across the district. Of these, five cases were registered at Padubidri police station and one each at Shirva, Kaup and Manipal police stations
Udupi: Police have arrested a 38-year-old man for allegedly supplying the mobile phone numbers and other details of businessmen and prominent persons in Udupi district to underworld operative Hemanth Poojary.
Poojary is said to have threatened them with death to extort crores of rupees.
Suresh Amin of Yermal Bada village of Kaup taluk was arrested after police continued their investigation into eight extortion cases registered across the district. Of these, five cases were registered at Padubidri police station and one each at Shirva, Kaup and Manipal police stations.
Police said Poojary had allegedly called businessmen and prominent persons, demanding crores of rupees and threatening to kill them if they failed to pay.
Based on technical evidence the investigators found that Amin and Poojary had allegedly conspired to kill a businessman in one of the cases after he refused to pay the demanded amount and stopped answering phone calls.
Poojary had allegedly sent Amin Rs 5 lakh in connection with the crime. Police seized the remaining Rs 4.13 lakh from Amin after he had spent a portion of the money.
Suresh was produced before the court and remanded to judicial custody. He was later taken into police custody for further investigation.
Police suspect that more people may have been involved in the extortion network and are continuing their investigation.
