Mangalore : The total number of persons arrested in connection with the case of a kidnap attempt of a businessman of Kinnigoli, has gone to three with the police arresting one more person, a Ravi Poojari aide on  Jan 3, Thursday.

The arrested person is Bharath alias Bharathesh.Earlier, in November, the police had arrested Chittaranjan alias Chittu, also an aide of Ravi Poojary, and one  Subramanya alias Subbu.

Bharath and Subbu have been produced before Court on Thursday and remanded to police custody. The incident took place in October last year when Cyprian D’Souza, real estate businessman of Puttur was surrounded by four person who  tried to kidnap him at gun point.

Investigations are in progress.