Police raid rowdies' houses

Bengaluru: City Central Crime Branch (CCB) sleuths raided 50 rowdy sheeters houses and detained 23 as they had search warrants pending against them.

Additional Commissioner of Police Crime branch formed a team comprising 100 police personnel, who started the raid at 5 am untill 11.30 am.

The raids were conducted simultaneously at all the houses of rowdies with teams of police keeping a watch on their movements.

Those detained have been identified as Lokesh alias Mulam, Kommaghatta Manja, Lakshmana, Mahim, Jonty, Lakkasandra Viji, Robbery Giri, Thothla Manja, Michael D’Souza, JC Road Shankar, Kodigehalli Appu, Gaali Ravi, JCB Narayana, Dhoodh Ravi, Dadiya Mahesh, Bethenagere Shankar, Jagadish alias Marenahalli Jagga, Vediappan alias Vedi, Atush, Raja Kutty, Thirumaran alias Kutty, Tanveer and Pappu alias Amir Khan.

Sleuts seized land documents and demonetised currencies, 15 cheques, 14 mobile phones, 300 gm gold ornaments, two currency counting machines, seven daggers, two longs and three machetes from their houses.