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The model-turned-film actress, Leena Maria Paul, has always been in the news for the wrong reasons.
The name of Althaf Khan was revealed during the questioning of first accused Bilal, and second accused Vipin Varghese.
Pujari has also admitted his involvement and the role in the shooting case, executed in 2010 by his gang members at Bevincha in Kasargod, which he masterminded from Senegal.
Pujari has close ties with goonda gangs in Mangaluru who in turn are associated with the Perumbavoor gang in Kochi.
Ravi Pujari has said that Jiya had compiled the list of people who are likely to pay money if they were issued death threats and handed over their phone numbers to him while he was abroad.
The Crime Branch police have Pujari's custody till Monday when he has to be returned to the Bengaluru jail.
The history-sheeter, born in Malpe, Karnataka, is the first accused in the shooting case reported outside a beauty parlour in Kadavanthra, Kochi on December 15, 2018.
The gangster was nabbed in South Africa in a joint operation by the SA police and Senegal security agencies and was later extradited to Senegal.
Ravi Pujari, who fled India in 2000, was arrested from Africa with the help of Interpol and extradited to India recently.
Word had spread in the underworld that actor Leena Maria Paul, who owns the beauty parlour in Kochi, had amassed huge sums of black money from hawala deals centred around Kochi. Pujari sent assailants to her parlour when attempts to extort Rs 25 crores from her failed.
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