Former councillor K S Samiulla has lodged a complaint with Adugodi police following a call reportedly from underworld don Ravi Pujari demanding Rs 10 crore.

Samiulla received a call 10 days ago and the caller introduced himself as Ravi Pujari. He sought Rs 10 crore from Samiulla and before he could reply, the caller hung up. Samiulla did not file any complaint immediately and approached the police five days later. The call originated from Canada, police said.

Samiulla’s family members told Deccan Herald they were not aware of any such call. Samiulla was not reachable on his cellphone.

It may be recalled two employees of Shabnam Developers, a real estate firm owned by Samiulla, were gunned down in Jayanagar 9th Block on February 15. Samiulla had left the office half an hour before the attack.

It was believed the assassins were contract killers hired by Pujari, who wanted to eliminate Samiulla as he suspected Samiulla had links with Dawood Ibrahim.

Runaway lovers traced

A ‘couple’ who eloped from Neelasandra a week ago were traced in Koramangala.

The 24-year-old Jeevan (name changed) was a tutor to Stella (name changed), an eighth standard student. He used to go to her house in Neelasandra every day to teach her. Over a period of time, he succeeded in winning the heart of Mercy, 42, (name changed), Stella’s mother.

Stella and her father, John, an employee of a private firm, was unaware of the ‘romantic development’.

Last week, when Stella and John were away from home, Jeevan met Mercy at her house and asked her to run away with him. When John returned home, he was shocked to see Mercy missing and lodged a police complaint.

Woman run over by car

A woman was run over by a speeding car on Bellary Road near Byatarayanapura on Sunday evening. The accident occurred when Tejaswathamma was crossing the road along with her husband.

The couple, residents of Amruthahalli, were on their way to a temple when the accident occurred. Severely injured Tejaswathamma was shifted to a private hospital, where she died. Police are searching for the killer driver.

Exhibition shed gutted

A fire broke out in a makeshift exhibition shed on Sampige Road 7th Cross, Malleswaram on Sunday night. Nearly Rs 2 lakh worth cotton apparel were gutted in the accident. Neighbours alerted the fire force and two fire tenders were pressed into service. Electric short circuit is said to be the reason for fire.

In a similar accident, materials worth lakhs of rupees were reduced to ashes when a godown on Jageesh Road in Srirampuram went into flames. Fire fighters fought for nearly two hours and put out the fire.

3 held on charges of extortion

Madivala police on Sunday arrested three persons on charges of extortion and recovered jewellery and a cell phone worth Rs 50,000 from them.

The accused have been identified as Raghu (22), a resident of Hongesandra, Firoz (23) and Vijay (25) of Begur.
According to the police, the three used to pose as auto drivers and lure people with lesser fares. They used to rob the auto passengers and abscond. With their arrest two cases registered with Madivala police have been solved.