Kidnap foiled, Ravi Poojarys 3 aides arrested

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BANGALORE: The Central Crime Branch (CCB) sleuths have arrested three associates of underworld gangster Ravi Poojary and foiled a ..

BANGALORE: The Central Crime Branch (CCB) sleuths have arrested three associates of underworld gangster Ravi Poojary and foiled a kidnap bid.
The accused have been identified as Keshav Pradeep (41), Raghavendra (30) and Narasimhamurthy (40). Police said that the arrested are the associates of Kali Yogesh and Harish Tolar who execute orders from Ravi Poojary in Bangalore. However, two other associates identified as Kumar and Dhruva managed to escape, police said. The arrest was made when the trio were waiting to kidnap and kill a citybased businessman, who had refused to pay ransom, police said. The accused used to collect details of business and family of the businessman and passed it on to Harish and Yogesh, who in turn passed it on to Ravi Poojary. Poojary then called the businessman demanding ransom.

The victim approached the police and sought help following which the accused trailed the businessman and informed Poojary about him informing the police.

Ravi Poojary had recently made a ransom call to Cable Operators Association president demanding around `5 crore. When the victim said that he could not pay since he is running severe loss in business, Poojary said to have offered to take over his business.