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Much ado about nothing!

Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD: A clash between two car owners was mistaken as an abduction by a passer-by at Jubilee Hills on Monday night, keeping the entire city police on toes for an hour.

The drama unfolded near Journalists’ Colony around 8 p.m. when a person saw two groups of youngsters, who were travelling in an Innova and Maruti Swift car, stop their vehicles and enter into an argument.

False alarm

The person, who identified himself as Prabhakar, rang up the city control stating that the group of people travelling in Innova car kidnapped two of the youth travelling in the Maruti Swift vehicel and sped away after a fight.

Search for Innova

Alerted by the control room staff, the entire city police swung into action checking vehicles all over the city. The Rakshak vehicles and Blue Colt teams started searching for the Innova and intercepted it somewhere near Greenland. Sumanth, who was travelling in the vehicle along with two of his friends, was brought to the Jubilee Hills police station.

“We questioned Sumanth but he made it clear that neither had he kidnapped anyone nor the youths travelling in the Swift attacked him. It was only a misunderstanding,” the West Zone DCP C. Ravi Varma said later speaking to reporters.

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