Death threat to Samiulla

Pujary chants terror mantra again

‘Kanoon ke haath bahut lambe hain’: It’s a joke, we all enjoy. Tweak the dialogue a bit - ‘Underworld ke haath bahut lambe hain’ - and it gives you the creeps. The underworld’s arms are really long, long enough to reach Bangalore, from France. Two weeks ago, real estate developer Samiulla of Shabnam Developers, had just about gotten over the terror attack on him in February. On a sunny afternoon, Samiulla was about to break for lunch, when his cell phone buzzed. The caller’s voice was unfamiliar, the call, from France, and the message blunt and direct: Give Rs 10 crore or else. The threat emanating allegedly from Monaco-based underworld don Ravi Poojary.

When an underworld don who’s as infamous for his supari killings as any, threatens to kill you if you don’t deliver the money, the first thing that occurs to you is understandably not the police. But Samiulla, who’s cut his teeth in politics as a former Congress corporator, and tasted the big, bad world as a successful property developer, showed it will take more than a phone threat to shake him. He immediately tipped off the police, and lodged a complaint with the Audugodi police. The police have registered a case under Section 506 IPC.
The investigating team is working on the theory that the accused in the February Shabnam Developers shootout case must be privy to the real identity of the caller. Thirteen of the 16 accused are out on bail, and the cops are on the lookout for them. They may be in need of money after securing bail, and hence they could be behind the death threat, is one line of thought.

In February this year, in a ghastly filmy style attack, armed gangsters had barged into Samiulla’s office in Tilaknagar looking out for him, and had mistakenly killed his colleagues, Ravi and Shylaja. The Tilaknagar police had chargesheeted eleven accused for the murder and arrested them. However, the alleged mastermind Ravi Poojary is still at large, and apparently unfazed enough to make death threats over phone.
Call from Bhai: Meanwhile, Shantinagar resident, Roopesh Shah, a cell phone spare parts dealer, also got a similar death threat over phone.