KOCHI: A prominent private TV channel on Wednesday received a phone call purportedly from underworld don Ravi Pujari even as the investigation is going on into the Kochi Beauty parlour shooting incident. The caller said he was Ravi Pujari and the police could verify his number. The call came from an overseas telephone number.

“Some persons in the team including Leena Maria Paul had fraudulently taken money from many people. I intervened after I got many complaints against them.

Leena Maria is not our target. Those who shot gunfire were our boys. We shall finish that person who has cheated people for money. Leena wall called up to help us track the cheats. Now we are not ready to reveal the name of the person and all will know his name when we have killed him,” the caller said.

The caller also asked the channel to record the call and hand it over to the Mumbai police if they doubted the identity of the caller.
“The Mumbai police and prominent media persons very well know my phone number,” he added.

Meanwhile, the channel has handed over the details of the phone call to the police. The police are probing the source of the call.