TUMAKURU: The police have arrested the fifth accused in the supari (hit job) case targeted at MLC Rajendra Rajanna. The accused Yatish, a close associate of the first accused Somashekar a.k.a Soma, was apprehended from Shanti Nagar in Tumakuru around midnight on Tuesday.
The police questioned Yatish about how much money he had received from the advance of Rs 5 lakh which had been given for the hit job, but he denied having received any money.
Meanwhile, the police continued questioning Pushpa, an associate of Soma, for the second day on Tuesday. The police are probing if Pushpa was involved in honeytrapping as she had several obscene videos with political leaders. They are also looking into whether she had extorted money from people and if Soma had used her to honeytrap victims.
The police have also freezed the bank acount of Soma and probing whether the hit job was planned after financial deals went down. They are also looking into the bank details of Soma’s Manu, a carpenteer as the former was transacting through the latter.
Pushpa was running a hotel under the flyover on Railway Station Road and two obscene videos of hers had gone viral earlier. She was booked in a dacoity case on September 9, 2023 after a 63-year-old woman was robbed of her gold ornaments. A case was registered at the NEPS police station and the FIR had mentioned her only as a 35-year-old woman.
Somashekar had received Rs 5 lakh for the hit job last November and in the same month, two youths and a woman had visited the MLC’s house, but could not execute the hit job. In January, another failed bid was carried out and one Gunda had revealed about this to his girlfriend Yashoda, who, in turn, informed Pushpa about a deal for Rs 70 lakh. Soma had also reportedly cheated Pushpa of Rs 30 lakh.
Pushpa was earlier arrested in a honeytrap case involving a businessman after which she had been jailed. She had also been booked for theft at houses where she worked as a domestic help.
