Bengaluru: Fake police raid kidnaps 4 BPO employees; 8 arrested
Bengaluru: Fake police raid kidnaps 4 BPO employees; 8 arrested
Eight suspects, including a constable, were arrested in Bengaluru for kidnapping four BPO workers in a staged police raid, with ransom payments traced.
Close on the heels of a police constable’s involvement coming to the fore in another case, Koramangala police have cracked a kidnapping case involving four BPO employees from a local office on Saturday. Eight people, including a serving police constable, have been arrested. The accused, identified as Zabiulla, 30, a welder; Pavan, 30, a seller of rejected items; Atheeq, 30, also dealing in rejected items; Bharath, 26, a painter; Prashanth Kumar, 26, a petrol pump attendant — all natives of Kolar — along with Shabaj Ahmed, 45, a welder from KR Puram; Tejas Dave, 30, a garage worker from Ahmedabad; and constable Chalapathy, posed as police officials and barged into a BPO office in Koramangala. Under the pretext of an inquiry, they bundled four employees into a car and kidnapped them for a ransom. They forced the victims to contact a colleague and demanded ₹20 lakh for their release. Before this, the accused had compelled them to transfer ₹8 lakh from their bank accounts to accounts controlled by the kidnappers. Following a complaint, the Koramangala police registered a case of kidnapping for ransom and arrested the accused when they arrived to collect the ransom amount. All eight were produced before court and have been remanded to four days in police custody. The police have also seized two vehicles and recovered details of the digitally extorted money.
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