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The businessman, Rehman Sheikh, had given a parcel containing gold to Moodibidri resident Waqar Yunus to deliver to his relative in Bengaluru.
Yunus friend Mahaz, on learning of gold in the possession of Yunus, took him to Uppala in Kerala and stole the gold on May 6.
Sheikh and his relative filed a case against Mahaz who was arrested on May 21 and a part of the stolen gold, which was sold by Mahaz in Kerala, was recovered. Police were pursuing Mahaz’s accomplices involved in the stealing.
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Salam and 8 other of his accomplices were arrested while were waiting in two cars at a distance outside Mahaz’s house at Beluvai in Moodibidri on May 24 to confront and kill Mahaz if he refused to divulge information on his accomplices.