Representative image of arrest.
Credit: iStock Photo
Mangaluru: The Urwa police arrested an absconding suspect in a shootout case reported at Bejai Bharathi Builders office in 2014. The arrested is Ganesh Lakshman Sakhat from Karad in Maharashtra.
DCP Crime and Traffic K Ravishankar said that in connection with the shootout allegedly carried out by associates of underworld gangster Ravi Poojary, a case was registered at the Urwa Police Station under Sections 447, 120(b), 307 of the IPC, and Section 27 of the Arms Act.
One of the suspects, Sakhat, was absconding since 2015 without appearing before the court. A warrant was issued against him by the third JMFC Court in Mangaluru.
On the direction of Commissioner of Police Sudheer Kumar Reddy CH , a team led by Urwa Inspector arrested Sakhat in Pandharpur, Maharashtra, and produced him before the court on Sunday, which in turn remanded him in judicial custody.
The arrested was also wanted in another case registered at Kavoor Police Station under Sections 448, 507, 120(b) read with 34 of the IPC. A warrant was issued against him in that case as well. He was also involved in an Arms Act case in Karad, Satara district, Maharashtra.