Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Jun 6: Central Crime Branch (CCB) police here filed charge sheets against underworld fugitive, Ravi Poojary, relating to cases against him. They pertain to Shabnam Developers shootout at Tilak Nagar and extorting money from the trustee of a temple at Whitefield by posing threats. Even though charge sheets had been filed against Poojary previously, he was referred to as an absconding accused.

The Tilaknagar Shabnam Developers shootout case of 2007 had shaken the entire city. In both cases, the police have prominently based their case on the hiring of goons by Poojary to do criminal acts.

Shabnam Shootout: On February 15, 2007, two miscreants had entered Shabnam Developers office located within Tilak Nagar police station limits and fired at the staff. In this incident, an employee of the firm, Shylaja, and car driver, Ravi, were killed. The shooters had escaped after pasting a paper on which the name, 'Ravi Poojary' was prominently written. It is said that Poojary had demanded crore of rupees as extortion money from Sameeulla, owner of Shabnam Developments and then a BBMP corporator. As Sameeulla refused to pay money, this shootout happened, it is said.

Even thereafter, Poojary had continued to function similarly and collect money. The current charge sheet has 514 pages. Statements and shreds of evidence of 48 persons have been obtained.

Eight persons said to be accomplices of Ravi Poojary in these crimes were arrested in 2009 in this case. But all of them were exonerated during the hearing.