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Abductors release doctor after wife pays ransom

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IN TRAUMA: Dr. Soujanya points to injury suffered by her husband Dr. Bindusara in Bangalore on Wednesday. — Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy

BANGALORE: An armed gang on Wednesday midnight kidnapped a doctor from Hennur police station limits and released him in the early hours of Thursday after taking a ransom of Rs. 20,000 from his wife.

The kidnappers assaulted Bindusara, injuring him on the forehead and robbed him of a gold chain, a ring, a mobile phone and Rs. 2,000 cash, the police said.

Dr. Bindusara (40), who runs a clinic at Devarajevanhalli, was returning to his HBR Layout house around midnight. Six men, travelling by a car, hit Dr. Bindusara's motorcycle near the BDA complex in Hennur. After Dr. Bindusara fell, they assaulted him and dragged him into their car. On the instructions of his kidnappers, Dr. Bindusara called his wife Soujanya, also a doctor, from his mobile phone and told her that he had met with an accident. He asked her to immediately come near the BDA Complex with Rs. 1 lakh.

Dr. Soujanya came near the BDA Complex and found that her husband was held captive in a car. The kidnappers demanded a ransom of Rs. 1 lakh for his release. When Soujanya told them she had only Rs. 20,000, they took the money and sent her back saying they would release her husband. Later, the kidnappers drove towards Hebbal Ring Road and pushed Dr. Bindusara out of the car near Lumbini Garden in the early hours of Thursday. Before releasing him, they beat him up and robbed him of cash and valuables. On a complaint by Dr. Bindusara, the Hennur police have registered a case.

Burgled

Burglars struck at a mobile phones showroom in Jayanagar police station limits on Wednesday night and looted handsets estimated at Rs. 3.5 lakh. The police said the thieves had entered Muddanna's shop, near Nethradhama hospital, on Kanakapura Main Road by breaking open the rolling shutters. The Jayanagar police have registered a case. In another incident, burglars made away with gold ornaments estimated at Rs. 1.5 lakh from a software engineer's house in Madivala police station limits on Wednesday afternoon.

The police said the incident took place around 3 p.m. at Velayudhan's house at Venkateshwara Layout in Maruthinagar. The Madivala police have registered a case.

Killed in accident

A pedestrian was killed on the spot after a goods vehicle knocked him down on Bellary Road, near the Hebbal police station, around 7 a.m. on Thursday. The police gave his name as Hanumanthappa (50) of Anandanagar. The R.T. Nagar traffic police seized vehicle and arrested the driver Mohan Reddy.

Suicide

Two persons committed suicide in separate incidents in the city on Wednesday night. Anthony Raj, a havaldar, committed suicide by hanging himself at his house in MEG quarters in Madivala police station limits. In the other incident, Padmanabha Raju (35), a businessman, hanged himself at his house on 7th Cross, Malleswaram.

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