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Beauty parlour shoot-out case : 3 suspected Ravi Poojary aides arrested


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Kasargod, Apr 13, 2019:  The Kasargod Crime Branch Police have arrested three persons suspected to be accomplices of underworld  don Ravi Poojary in connection with the  shoot-out that took place at a beauty parlour owned by actress Leena Maria Paul in Kochi on December 15 last year.

 

arrest_Those arrested are Altaf  of Aluva and Bilal and Vipin from Ernakulam. Sources revealed that a gang from Kasargod had hired them for the task.

After the shoot-out at the Nile Beauty Parlour, a person who introduced himself as Ravi Poojary had claimed responsibility for the incident by making a phone call to a Malayalam channel.

The accused have reportedly revealed during interrogation that the firing intended at threatening the actress to pay a hafta of Rs 25 crores.

The accused trio are wanted in other cases also. It is learnt they were promised Rs one crore but were only given Rs 30,000 by the men who hired them.