Lawyers kidnap youth to settle financial dispute

The Pune Rural Police rescued Sachin Tekade (23), who was allegedly kidnapped by Balaji Murty, the prime accused in the case, and his accomplices, and taken to Bangalore.

The Pune Rural Police rescued Sachin Tekade (23), who was allegedly kidnapped by Balaji Murty, the prime accused in the case, and his accomplices, and taken to Bangalore. Police say the kidnappers abducted Tekade to settle an old financial dispute with Tekade's cousin who lives in Bangalore. The police have arrested Balaji Murty, Shridhar Chandrappa, lawyer Suresh Subayya, former public prosecutor P Krishna Guruswamy Naidu, and Gowardhan Naidu in the case so far.

guilty? The alleged kidnappers brought to the superintendent of police at Pashan. pic/mandar tannu

On March 4, Balaji Murty and his accomplices visited Tekade's house at Kirloskar Colony in Manjari pretending to be the members of the Hyderabad task force. They said that they wanted to take Tekade along, as they wanted to interrogate him in some case.

After the abductors demanded Rs 30 lakh as ransom for his release, Tekade's father registered a case with the Loni-Kalbhor police station, who reached Bangalore on March 15 and established contact with the abductors.

The next day, the Pune cops, in coordination with the Bangalore police, laid a trap near KP circle and arrested the kidnappers.

Meanwhile, Subayya and Naidu, took shelter inside the court premises to evade arrest. But the cops posed as Tekade's relatives and arrested the duo outside the court building.