PCR to Pujari till Apr 24
   Date :15-Apr-2023

Pujari 
 
 
Staff Reporter
AFTER city police invoked the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act against Jayesh Pujari alias Salim Shahir for his links with terrorist organisations, the court further remanded him to police custody till April 24 on Friday.
Jayesh, who was already in police custody for making threat calls to harm Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari to extort crores of rupees, was now being intensely interrogated by a joint team of City Police and State and Central Intelligence agencies. He was taken into custody from Hindalga Central Jail in Karnataka’s Belagavi by the City Police for making threat calls to Gadkari’s public relations office from the prison. A team of city police had also seized two cellphones and two SIM cards which he was using from jail to make threat calls.
Police invoked UAPA against him after establishing his links with some gang members of the country's most wanted fugitive Dawood Ibrahim, Al-Qaeda, Popular Front of India (PFI) and Lashkar-e-Taiba. Investigations revealed that Jayesh was earlier trained in handling improvised explosive devices by the terrorist organisations in a North Eastern State.
Jayesh told investigators that he had converted to Islam and confessed to making three threatening calls to the public relations office of Gadkari and demanded Rs 10 crore. The call data record procured by the police also revealed that he had also made calls to Gadkari’s office using the same mobile phone demanding Rs 100 crore in January this year.