CCB Police Arrest Kanaka WhatsApp Group Admin
Mangaluru: The CCB Police arrested the admin of Kanaka WhatsApp group for extortion using the names of Police officers, politicians and media on May 13.
The arrested has been identified as Rasheed Kundadka alias Abdul Rasheed(39) from Beltangady.
According to the police, the accused had collected Rs 4 lakh from a person for withdrawing the name of the accused in the murder case of Mutthasim alias Taslim. Rasheed Kundadka had demanded Rs 20 lakh to withdraw the name of the accused in the case, saying that he had contact with the higher police officers. In this connection, a case was filed in the Mangaluru East police station, and the case is under investigation.
The CCB police collected all the necessary information about the accused Rasheed Kundadka and arrested him in Beltangady. He was later handed over to the Mangaluru East police for further investigations.
Rasheed Kundadka is the admin of the Kanaka WhatsApp group and has added several politicians, government officers and media persons in his WhatsApp group. He had the habit of calling people using his WhatsApp group and misusing names of the members of the group. He was showing off to be an influential person and was involved in extortion.
A number of cases have been registered against him in the Punjalkatte police station and is included in the Rowdy sheeter list.
The operation was carried out by the CCB Inspector Shivaprakasgh R Naik, PSI H D Kabbalraj and others.
