Mangaluru: The cops detained Padma, wife of gangster Ravi Poojary and his 14 year old son at Mumbai international airport on Monday when they arrived from Singapore.

Though sources say that the duo was deported to India, Mumbai cops maintained they were arrested when they landed from Bangkok.

Their arrests are likely to build pressure on Poojary , who in the last two years has threatened at least 47 people in Mumbai Pune, Bangalore and Mangalore. Unconfirmed reports said he may be deported soon.

Cops said Padma was on a red corner notice and was detained as soon as she landed.

Senior police officials refused to clarify whether the duo was caught while shuffling from Australia to Singapore or Bangkok and then deported to India.

Interestingly, his wife and son’s deportation has come on the day when JJ Marg police registered a fresh case against Poojary for threatening Gulzar Azmi, secretary of Jamiat Ul-ulemma’s legal cell, for representing suspected terrorists in court.

Former encounter specialist Pradeep Sharma had arrested Padma in 2005 in a fake passport case. Padma had forged documents to obtain her passport and those of her two daughters. She was released on bail after a month, but she fled the country within six months by secretly making another passport from Mangalore. Since then, a lookout notice was issued against her.