Close on the heels of a police constable’s involvement coming to the fore in the ATM cash van robbery case, the Koramangala police have solved the case of kidnapping of four employees of a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) firm from their office in Koramangala on Saturday (November 22). Eight people, including a serving police constable, have been arrested.
The accused have been identified as Zabiulla, 30, a welder, Pavan, 30, a salesman dealing in rejected items from an e-commerce platform, Atheeq, 30, also dealing in rejected items, Bharath, 26, a painter, and Prashanth Kumar, 26, a petrol pump attendant — all natives of Kolar. Other accused are Shabaj Ahmed, 45, a welder from K.R. Puram, Tejas Dave, 30, a garage worker from Ahmedabad, and constable Chalapathy.
According to the police, the accused 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.
The gang forced the victims to contact a colleague and demand ₹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.
