CCB sleuths arrest main accused in attempt to murder case

MANGALURU:

CCB

sleuths have arrested K Abdul Basheer, 42, resident of

Badaga Yedapadavu

in Mijar on charges of attempt to murder case registered in Bajpe police station limits in July. Basheer, city police chief M

Chandra Sekhar

said is the main accused in the incident, who was on the run since the incident. Based on a tip-off, CCB sleuths headed by police inspector

Sunil Y Nayak

and staff arrested Basheer and he has since been remanded in to judicial custody.

Police said Basheer was part of a group of 10-15 people on motorcycles and cars who waylaid Dharmendra and his friend Devu, on their way home on a motorcycle and assaulted them with clubs and logs fixed with nails on the night of July 16. The CCB sleuths zeroed in on Basheer at Shirthady near

Moodbidri

and arrested him. Basheer is also wanted in attempt to murder cases registered against him in Bajpe and Moodbidri police stations in the past, Chandra Sekhar added.

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