Coastal Talk News | Udupi
Suresh Amin, 38, has been arrested for allegedly providing underworld operative Hemanth Poojary with the mobile numbers and other details of entrepreneurs and prominent individuals in Udupi district who were targeted in extortion threats, police said. Eight cases have been registered in connection with the threats, in which victims were allegedly asked to pay crores of rupees and threatened with death if they failed to comply. Five cases were registered at Padubidri Police Station and one each at Shirva, Kaup and Manipal police stations in this regard.
Suresh Amin, resident of Batrathota House in Yermal Bada village of Kaup taluk, was arrested as part of the ongoing investigation. Police said technical evidence revealed an alleged conspiracy between Suresh Amin and Hemanth Poojary to kill an entrepreneur in one of the cases after the entrepreneur disagreed to pay the demanded money and did not answer phone calls. In connection with the alleged conspiracy, Poojary had reportedly sent Rs 5 lakh to Amin. Police have seized Rs 4.13 lakh from Amin after remaining amount was allegedly spent by him.
Amin was produced before a court in Udupi and remanded to judicial custody. He was subsequently taken into police custody for further questioning. Police are investigating the possible involvement of others in the cases.
