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Kidnapped girl rescued from armed gang

Staff Reporter

An alert public helped in rescuing the college student; accused arrested

BANGALORE: An alert public and the police on Thursday rescued a 20-year-old girl, a second year B.Com. student, who was kidnapped by an armed gang from R.T. Nagar. The police also caught the man who allegedly masterminded the kidnap.

The girl was being taken away in a multi-utility vehicle by around 10 armed men. Around 4.30 p.m., when they reached Mekhri Circle, a scooterist heard her screaming. He alerted a traffic constable at Cauvery Junction.

A message was flashed and the police and a few motorists chased and intercepted the vehicle when it slowed near Palace Lodge Circle, near Hotel Sindhu.

Swords seized

The police caught the main accused C. Narayana Swamy (32) of Devarahalli in Devanahalli taluk in Bangalore Rural District. The other occupants of the car managed to escape. Swords and choppers were seized from the vehicle.

The police said that for the past few years, Narayana Swamy had been harassing the girl's family, which lives in Amruthahalli on Bellary Road. Some time ago, he had tried to forcibly marry the girl's elder sister with the intention of getting huge dowry from her affluent father, they said.

After her father lodged a complaint with Yelahanka Police and got his elder daughter married off, Narayana Swamy had set eyes on the younger sibling. His intention in kidnapping her would have been to either demand a heavy ransom from her father or forcibly marry her and get huge dowry, the police said.

Around 4 p.m., the girl, a student of a private college on Miller's Road, boarded a bus to reach her house in Amruthahalli.

On reaching Taralabalu Road in R.T. Nagar, she realised that she had boarded a bus that was not going towards Bellary Road. She got down from the bus and was looking for an autorickshaw when Narayana Swamy and his accomplices, who had followed her from the college, dragged her into the vehicle. The kidnappers had pasted a sticker with fake registration number on the vehicle, the police said.

The High Grounds police have registered a case.

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