THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Ravi Pujara, the underworld kingpin, has issued a challenge to Kerala Police following the gunfire at actress Leena Maria’s beauty parlor at Kochi. An audio clip allegedly of Ravi Pujara was broadcasted in a channel.

“I got involved in this to retrieve money of another person who was cheated in a scam. Leena Maria Paul is not my target, but another person who was the central figure in this scam. When I find him, he’ll be killed. I challenge the officials to catch the offenders behind firing at beauty parlor before that”, he said.

Ravi Pujara had threatened many public personalities before as well. This include Bollywood actors and politicians. Death threats, demand for money and other such activities are his MO. He has threatened Bollywood celebrities like Shah Rukh Khan and Karan Johan before. Kerala came to know about him through his threat towards Ramesh Chennithala. The threat was for Nizam, culprit of Chandrabose murder case.

In 2014, Ravi Pujara asked Shah Rukh not to maintain any further relation with his friend and business partner Karim Morani. Other Bollywood superstars like Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar have had faced threats from Pujara before. Singer Arijit Singh was asked to pay up five crores. When Arijit informed Pujara that he cannot give such an amount, Pujara asked him to do two free programs for his friend.

Separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Gilani received threats in light of JNU issue. Karnataka Minister Ramnath Rai, U.T. Khader, Abhay Chandra Jain and several legislators got threats from Pujara. Recently M.S. Khan, advocate of Mujahudheen terrorist Yasin Bhatkal, received death threats from Pujara.