Kadaba, February 27: A youth was allegedly assaulted by members of an organization at Kadaba on Saturday for being with a girl belonging to another community in an ice cream parlor.
The victim has been identified as Raeesuddin, resident of Moodye near Maleshwara in Kadaba and student of Ramakunja College.
It is said Raeesuddin was having ice cream with a first year Engineering student of Sullia and resident of Mardala.
However, the police rushed to the spot after he was assaulted and stripped by the gang. Police warned the couple before handing them over to their respective parents.
The kidnapped schoolboy was rescued by the police and reunited with his parents. Son of a gift shop owner from Basavanagudi area in Bengaluru, Chirag has reportedly told police that decided to make some quick money to spend on cricket betting and gambling after learning kidnap tricks from the ‘Crime Patrol’. According to police, Chirag reached a private school around 3pm on Tuesday on a Bounce rental bike and zeroed in on a fourth standard student who was walking out of school. He told the boy he was his father's friend and that he required help to search for a relative who had gone missing. The boy believed Chirag and rode pillion on the bike. Chirag then engaged the boy in conversation and learnt about his father's business and got his mobile phone number. He then made a call to the boy's father, demanded Rs 5 lakh and warned him against approaching cops. However, the boy's father alerted Cottonpet police and special teams were formed to crack the case. While Cottonpet inspector Venkatesh TC's squad verified CCTV footage in and around the school, Chamarajpet inspector BG Kumaraswamy's team started tracking the suspect's mobile phone movements. An hour later, the suspect's location was traced to a hotel on the Lavelle Road-St Mark's Road stretch. Police rushed there, rescued the boy and arrested Chirag.
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