Madoor Yusuf, alias Isubu, 36, of Ullal near Mangalore was arrested following a tip-off. The police chief said he was in the city to meet one of his associates.
An aide of gangster Chhota Shakeel, who was at large for seven years, has been arrested for his involvement in various criminal cases, including murder and rioting, police said today.
Madoor Yousuf alias Madoor Isubu (36), who had been working for Chota Shakeel since February this year, was arrested last night, DGP Ajai Kumar Singh told reporters in Bangalore.
Yousuf, a native of a village near Ullal in Dakshina Kannada district, was involved in over 17 criminal cases since 2001, including four murders, six attempt to murder besides extortion and rioting, he said.
The accused had been on the wanted list since 2003, when he jumped bail in two cases of communal rioting in Ullal and fled to Saudi Arabia, from where he began his operations using local associates in Mangalore.
Following up on information that Yousuf was to visit Yeshwanthpur Railway Station in Bangalore to receive his old associate, a trap was laid and he was nabbed, the DGP said.
He was sentenced to three years imprisonment in a communal rioting case at Ullalal in 2001, but was acquitted on appeal.
Between 2001 and 2003, he was involved in three cases of attempt to murder and two cases communal rioting. In November 2003, he along with his associates killed an autodriver in Ullal, the DGP said.
Giving police a slip in January 2004, Yousuf conspired to kill Chandrashekar Uchill, the then Panchayat president of Someshwar village. He sent a gang to execute the murder but Uchill escaped with grievous injuries. When police launched a manhunt, Yousuf escaped to Mumbai and from there to Saudi Arabia in May 2004. Since then he has been operating from Saudi Arabia, he said.
From June 2005 to February 2009, he has been instrumental in three murders in Mangalore.
Yousuf also had close connections with notorious criminals, Devaiah and Vinay, who have links with underworld and Naxalites. The two were nabbed by city police in August this year, Singh said.
The DGP also announced a cash reward of Rs50,000 for the police team for nabbing the gangster.
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