Mahendra was abducted alongside his roommate by a revenge-driven group of friends
The 21-year-old woman allegedly planned the kidnapping with the help of 10 others on October 28 in Marathahalli, seeking to punish the engineer, police sources said on Thursday. Police arrested all 11 people on charges of kidnapping and illegal confinement. They took 11 people into custody in connection with the case, including the 21-year-old woman.
B Ramana, a resident of Madanapalle in Andhra Pradesh, lodged a complaint stating that his son Mahendra and his roommate Tarun, a native of Kadapa in Andhra Pradesh, had been kidnapped by a group of people within the jurisdiction of Marathahalli police station in Bengaluru in the early hours of Wednesday, according to police. “During questioning, the accused allegedly confessed to conspiring together to commit the crime and kidnapping the two men for money,” police said. Police traced the accused and rescued Mahendra and Tarun “within six hours of registering the case on October 28”.
BENGALURU: In a case that took an unusual turn during an abduction probe, Bengaluru police rescued a software engineer and his roommate within six hours of receiving a kidnapping complaint, only to discover that the engineer had allegedly raped his girlfriend, who was among those accused of abducting him. Police examined CCTV footage and used modern technology to investigate the incident from various angles. During the investigation, police also learnt that Mahendra had allegedly raped the woman.
During the investigation, they learnt that the 23-year-old engineer, B Mahendra, had allegedly raped the woman, police sources said. The case came to light when police were investigating an abduction complaint involving people from neighbouring Andhra Pradesh.