Mangalore: Two men were arrested by the city crime branch police (CCB), who are learnt to be close aide of underworld dons Ravi Poojary and Kali Yogish.

The arrest was made on Saturday June 21 near Kuntepadavu in Permude at Bajpe, were two were held and other two are said to be absconding. The CCB police raided a shed at OMPL near Permude and arrested them.

With reference to the arrest a press meet was held later in the day at the commissioner’s office, addressed by the city police commissioner R Hitendra.

The arrested have been identified as 27-year-old Subramanya alias Subbu from Kolar, residing at Kuntepadavu, and 30-year-old Kiran alias Achyuta alias Swamy from Marigudi in Urwa. They were arrested for threatening and plotting to kill two builders in the city.

Hitendra informed that the police seized three pistols (a 7.62mm and two 7.65mm), 17 bullets, Rs 1.50 lac in cash and two mobile phones from the accused. The total value of the seized items is Rs 7.53 lac.

The police commissioner further said that the accused had received the cash by courier, but the source is the yet to be ascertained.

The other accused, Kiran alias Swamy alias Achyuta, had attempted to murder Nagesh Poojary near PVS in 2011, and in 2012, was arrested in connection with the Bejai Raja murder and sent to judicial custody.

The operation was conducted as per the direction of city police commissioner R Hitendra, under the guidance of DCP (law and order) and Dr Jagadish, DCP (crime) Vishnuvardhan, and led by CCB inspector Valentine D’Souza. PSI Shyamsunder, police personnel Shashidhar Shetty, Ganesh M P, Venugopal, Chandrashekar, Dinesh Bekal, Rajendra Prasad, Sudhir Shetty, Abdul Jabbar, Mani M N and Tejakumar were part of the police team.