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Gangster Ravi Poojary targets builders in Mangalore, Bangalore

Gangster Ravi Poojary targets builders in Mangalore, Bangalore


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RaviPoojary Bangalore, September 27: Underworld don Ravi Poojary has targeted at least 14 businessmen in the City for extortion, according to sources in police.

Calls and letters demanding money were received by some top builders in the City, with an unmistakable threat to their lives over the last year and half. (One of the letters has been reproduced.

 

Sanjay Mukharjee, Vice President of Vakil Housing Development Corporation Private Limited filed a complaint with the Koramangala police station in first week of September after receiving such an intimidating letter asking them to cough up Rs 50 lakh. The case is now with Central Crime Branch.


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Ravi Poojary


Almost every big real estate developer have an identical this letter during the same time, but none has come forward to give a complaint, police officer said. Apparently, Ravi Poojary is now trying to develop Bangalore as his second base after Mangalore.


“He (Ravi) uses small time goondas like Chandru to extract information about certain developers and businessmen. He would use them to know about their operation, size of company, car and mobile numbers and personal details like number of kids they have which school they are studying. Once he is done with this, he would then contact the prey over phone or letter asking for the extortion money,” said a senior crime branch officials.


According to senior police officers, Poojary uses smalltime goondas as local agents to avoid police action against his top associates.


“These small time anti-social elements take pride being Pujary’s associates. We have a strong data base to monitor the activities of Poojary’s gang in the city. Every time, he changes his associates for any new assignments,” the officer.


Death threat in a letter

To all the builders in the city,
Builder Bhai,


Don’t get disturbed after reading this letter. Bhai (Ravi Poojary) talks only once and he won’t even talk to you after this. Give us the money without any drama or else be ready to face the consequence. And don’t come to me seeking apology. We want only Rs 50 lakh within one month.


You have to handover the money to Anis in Bangalore. He will come to Bunts Sangh in Vijayanager and you have to settle the deal there. Everything is clear, I don’t want to hear rubbish stories and don’t act smart or else try to recall what had happened in Mangalore. The same thing will happen to you. I am warning you again, if you want to live then keep quite and give us the money. If you inform the police about this, I will be waiting for in the graveyard.


Every businessman gives me money and you also have to do the same. Or else ask your father to be ready to perform your last rites. Nothing to be worried. Give the money and have fun.


Gangster Ravi Pujari’s new base is Bangalore


Bangalore:  Gangster Ravi Pujari has shifted his base to Bangalore after the crime branch in Mumbai has turned on the heat on members of his gang. Pujari suffered two major setbacks in Mumbai after two key members of his gang were gunned down in separate encounters.

 

At least eight members of his gang were arrested in the past two months reducing his striking capabilities in Mumbai to near negligible. A crime branch officer said that Pujari has shifted his base to the city due to the large-scale development, and wanted to encash on real estate deals.
 
At least eight members of Ravi Pujari gang were arrested in the past two months, thus reducing his striking capabilities in Mumbai to near negligible.

The source added that he is trying to exploit a new breed of shooters available from his hometown Padbidri, near Udipi in Mangalore.

Joint Commissioner of Police (crime) Himanshu Roy told MiD DAY that his officers have arrested most of Pujari’s active shooters and his chief lieutenants.

After the setbacks he suffered in Mumbai, we are keeping close tabs on his activities. "It is possible that due to this pressure he might have shifted his activities to Bangalore," added Roy.

Pujari teamed up with Guru Satam soon after he broke away from his mentor Chhota Rajan in 2002, but this association with the ageing Satam did not last too long.

Initially, Pujari started to target forwarding agents in and around the Sahar international airport, where he had grown up. He soon shifted his focus to hoteliers in the city.

Pujari launched himself in the upper echelon of Mumbai’s underworld when he began targeting some Bollywood actors. He tried to emulate his mentor Rajan as a patriot don.

The gangster even tried to a foothold in Pune city limits, but suffered another setback when six members of his gang were nabbed on April 11, 2008.

Pujari also tried his luck in Surat and Mangalore. He speaks fluent English, Kannada and Tulu languages, which gives him an edge over his rivals, sources disclosed.

Pujari shifted his focus again to Mumbai, but was challenged by Mumbai’s crime branch. The Anti Extortion Cell had trapped most of his shooters.

Police sources informed that most of Pujari’s targets reported the matter to the police rather than succumbing to the threat. This was mainly because most his hirelings were small-time goons.

Pujari soon resorted to hiring shooters from North India. Most of them were off the mark and were soon arrested by crime branch officials. "The recruits are goons who have been booked with petty offences.
 
They are usually provided with country-made weapons to scare targets," said an official.


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