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DG & IGP: Bannanje Raja will be extradited to Karnataka soon

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Udupi: Underworld don Bannanje Raja, who was on the run for 18 years before he was detained in Morocco in February this year, will be extradited to Bengaluru in a couple of days. This was announced by the director-General and Inspector-General of Police Om Prakash on Friday

BannanjeThe IG also announced a cash reward of Rs 10 lakh to the team that will go to Morocco and get him back to Bengaluru. The State police, which got a red corner notice issued against him, prepared documents weighing 100 kg and presented them to the authorities in Morocco to substantiate its claim to get him extradited, Om Prakash said.

Bannanje Raja, alias Rajendra, who is facing 44 cases in and around the State, had three passports that he has obtained in three different names. Rajendra was booked for rowdyism in Malpe in 1990.

Raja hails from Bannanje in Udupi and began his career in crime in Udupi as a small-time rowdy. In the initial stages, he was involved in petty and extortion cases. He started organizing a gang and indulged in several criminal activates, including a rape of a college girl in Udupi, and operated an extortion racket. He shot into prominence after his involvement in the murder of Kokkarne Kushal Shetty in 1991.

Gradually, he expanded his operation to Bengaluru and was arrested in 1995 by JB Nagar police under the Arms Act. Soon after getting out on bail, he escaped to Dubai using a fake passport but continued his extortion racket from there. He formed a gang under the banner, “BR Company”, and expanded his criminal activities to Uttar Pradesh, Kerala and Mumbai.

Though the Mangaluru police got a red corner notice issued against him in 2009, he continued his extortion racket and in one instance, got Ankola-based businessman R.N. Nayak killed when the latter refused to pay him ransom money.

Santosh Kumar, Additional Superintendent of Police, told The Hindu in Udupi on Friday that there were 12 cases against Bannanje Raja in Udupi district, including the Kokkarne Kushal Shetty murder case. Most of the cases against him pertained to extortion.

Mr. Om Prakash said that the police would be able to expose the racket and his network spread across the country through a detailed interrogation. He also hinted that a probe would be conducted on how Bannanje Raja managed to procure two passports from Bengaluru and Mangaluru and take necessary action. “Now that he has been caught, he will have to be produced before courts in Udupi and Karwar,” Mr. Kumar said.

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