Mangaluru : The city police continued to question underworld operative Bannanje Raja in connection with some cases booked against him here.

On December 30, 2015, the city police brought to the city Bannanje Raja, who had been lodged in the Belagavi Central Prison following his arrest in Morocco sometime ago.

The II Judicial Magistrate First Class gave custody of Bannanje Raja to the Mangaluru South Police for five days in connection with the assault on activist P.B. D’Sa in 2002.

The police produced him again before the Magistrate on Wednesday and sought permission to question Bannanje Raja in connection with a case of assault on Richard D’Souza in 2000.

The court permitted the police to have Bannanje Raja in their custody till January 8.

There are as many as six cases against Bannanje Raja in Mangaluru.