Cops arrest Bannanje Raja aide for illegal possession of arms

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, Feb 17, 2014: Police personnel from City Crime Branch and Pandeshwar Police Station have in a joint operation arrested an aide of underworld don Bannanje Raja from near the Manki stand at Pandeshwar on February 15, Saturday on the charges of illegal possession of arms. Police have seized a pistol from him. He was produced before the court on February 16.

bananje raj The arrested person is Sooryakumar alias Soori (35) who hails from Suntikoppa in Madikeri but is settled near Manki Stand since a decade. It has been learnt that he has admitted during interrogations that the pistol was given to him by a woman in Manipal as per the directions of Santu and Achangi Mahesh who are presently in Mysore prison.

Police sources said Soori who is facing charges of murder and theft was released on bail just a month ago. He is an accused in the case of murder of a senior citizen named Vasudeva Shenoy at his apartment near PVS Kalakunj in the city.

The police raid followed a tip off from locals that they have spotted a man with a pistol in the area.

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