Bengaluru teenager kidnap-murder: Family's spare driver, accomplice held after police encounter
Concept of Crime scene ,Selective focus to victim hand with blood of a dead body lying on Road
In a late-night encounter, Karnataka police nabbed two of the four accused wanted for kidnapping and murdering a 13-year-old boy on the outskirts of Bengaluru on Thursday. The kidnappers were shot in the legs when they tried to attack police with lethal weapons.
Police nabbed two of the kidnappers, Gurumuruthy and Gopalakrishna, after an encounter in Bannerghatta area. According to police, the accused tried to attack police with daggers when they tried to arrest them. Despite firing warning shots, the accused continued to wield daggers at police in an attempt to escape arrest. Police shot the accused in the legs when they tried to run away, senior police officials said.
Police said Gurumuruthy is allegedly the mastermind of the crime. The victim's family had employed him as a spare driver in the past.
According to police, 13-year-old Nischith was reported missing on Wednesday evening by his parents, and a massive search was launched to find out his whereabouts. Miscreants kidnapped the class 8 student from Shantiniketan Layout, Arakere, Bengaluru, while he was returning home after his tuition classes, police said.
Nischith's father, a college professor, lodged a complaint with the Hulimavu Police Station after his son did not return home by 8 pm on Wednesday. They also found his cycle abandoned in Promili Park area Arakere.
According to police, the kidnappers contacted the family soon after they lodged the complaint and demanded a ransom of ₹5 lakh. While the family was reportedly ready to pay the ransom amount, things took a tragic turn on Thursday, after cops recovered the charred body of the teenager from a deserted area on Kaggalipur Road, Bannerghatta.
Rural Bengaluru SP C.K. Baba said, "When the kidnapper received information that the parents of the minor had filed a police complaint, they allegedly beat him to death and half-burned his body."
The kidnappers were rushed to Jayanagar government hospital for treatment. Further probe is underway.
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