Mysuru/Mangaluru, Oct 2: The Karnataka police have managed to solve the case of Kidnapping of a Kerala based businessman and arrested seven alleged abductors from Mangaluru.
The arrested have been identified as Mohammed d Mustaq (28), Mohammed Sesan (21), Mohammed Bashir (29), Ummar Farooq (29), Mohammed Sesan (25), Mohammed Asif (26), and Ibrahim Kaleel (25). All of them are said to be first-time offenders.
Zubair, a fruit merchant hailing from Thalassery in Kerala along with his driver Abdul Rahim and cleaner Sandesh was on the way to Bengaluru from Thalassery when the gang of seven intercepted their SUV near Karnakuppe Gate on Hunsur-Virajpet road around 1am on Tuesday.
The gang had made vain bid to stop them few kilometre earlier. Zubair later said to have given Rs 1.5 lakh cash that was with him to cleaner Sandesh before the gang stopped them near the gate. Both cleaner and driver were alighted from the vehicle immediately. Then a few in the gang boarded Zubair vehicle and drove him away to Mangaluru via Sakleshpura.
Meanwhile, Abdul Rahim contacted a relative of his, who was a cop, and on his advice Rahim contacted Hunsur rural police (Mysuru district) around 4 am the same day.
Hunsur police, led by inspector KC Poovaiah formed a team and launched search for him. Hours later, cops team identified the kidnappers near Mangaluru. In the meantime, the youths had demanded money from his family twice for Zubair's release.
The arrested youngsters were familiar to Zubair and had, in fact, earlier worked for him. Police claimed the accused detached from Zubair over financial matters and wanted to settle score against him.
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