BANGALORE, FEB.24, 2020 : Ravi Pujari is a known figure in the underworld in Mumbai and other parts of the country. Supreme court of Senegal in 19 Feb rejected the last legal option available to Ravi Pujari under the law and rejection of his request to be extradited the SC of Senegal , keeping his records of past activities.
Ravi Pujari acquired citizenship of Burkina Faso for 12 years where he was doing business.
Last 3 years he shifted his base to Senegal where he started a restaurant named maharaja. It was visited by man people, but be countined his extortion and threat business against people from film industry, business man, real estate and professionals and also meddling in political activities ADGP law and order Amar Kumar Pandey said.
there were a large number of red corner notices and one specifically from Tilak Nagar… And this extrodiction was executed by Interpol Dakar on 19 Jan 19 and remained in the prison here until handed over to Indian authorities on 22 Feb 2020. Today after brief medical examination he was produced before 1st ACMM and will remain in police custody till march 7 Amar Kumar Pandey told to media persons here.
Long chase of this ghost like figure has come to an end :
Pujari faces 97 cases in Karnataka alone of which 47 cases belong to Bangalore city, besides cases in Mumbai, Thane, districts in Gujarat and a case in Kochi. Amar Kumar Pande said, once the Karnataka police investigate in several cases and chargesheets submitted. All agencies will be given opportunities to try him under the law.
It gives me great satisfaction, as I was entrusted with this assignment and I have complete it. In the intiital days a large no. Of officers here in India and abroad have played a significant role and I’d like to express my deep sense of gratitude on behalf of Karnataka.
He was missing since 1994 after murder of another underworld figure, he was untraced and committed some.sensational murders in Mumbai, then escaped to Nepal, then went to Bangkok, then from there to Uganda and then Burkina Faso and then Senegal and now back to India.
There are several murder cases we will have to make almost where he is named in the FIR, the exact figure will come out during questions… It will positively.go beyond a dozen…
his story of passport is such where after going to Nepal he got a fake Indian passport which shows his native as Mysuru. He traveled.to all other countries with this passport. In Burkina Faso he acquired a local passport and was a very influential person there.
In Senegal he was carrying the Burkina Faso passport which goes with the name Anthony Fernandes
