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Kidnap in 2014, arrest in 2024
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Kidnap in 2014, arrest in 2024

January 5, 2024

City doctor’s kidnap, extortion case: Fugitive on the run finally arrested after 10 years Mysore/Mysuru: A fugitive, wanted in a kidnap and extortion of a city-based doctor but on the run for the past 10 years, has been finally arrested by Kuvempunagar Police. Phaniraj Gowda, a resident of Dattagalli is the accused who was apprehended…

Kidnap of industrialist, son from Nanjangud for ransom
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Kidnap of industrialist, son from Nanjangud for ransom

February 13, 2023

Special Police team nabs ten; recovers Rs. 21.10 lakh Mysore/Mysuru: The Special Police Team, constituted to trace and arrest the kidnappers of an industrialist and his son from Nanjangud, have solved the case by arresting 10 accused and recovering cash besides seizing four and two-wheelers, lethal weapons and mobile phones from them. According to sources,…

Death of accused by jumping out of Police vehicle: Five Police personnel including Circle Inspector suspended
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Death of accused by jumping out of Police vehicle: Five Police personnel including Circle Inspector suspended

December 1, 2022

FIR registered against three including Sub-Inspector Chamarajanagar: Five Police personnel have been suspended following an incident of a kidnap accused jumping out of the moving Police vehicle resulting in his death. Addressing a press meet yesterday, Superintendent of Police (SP) T.P. Shivakumar said that the Police personnel, who have been suspended, are Yalandur Circle Inspector…

Kidnap, extortion in the guise of Health officials
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Kidnap, extortion in the guise of Health officials

January 7, 2022

Court sentences three persons including a journalist to seven years jail K.R. Pet: The Srirangapatna’s 3rd Additional District and Sessions Court has sentenced three persons including a journalist to seven years imprisonment besides imposing Rs. 10,000 each as fine after they were found guilty of kidnapping a doctor after posing as Health Department officials. The…

Kidnapped from Tirupati, baby rescued in Mysuru
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Kidnapped from Tirupati, baby rescued in Mysuru

August 8, 2021

Mysore/Mysuru: Devaraja Police have arrested a 31-year-old woman on charges of kidnapping a four-month-old baby boy from Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh.  A press release from the Public Relations Officer, City Police Commissioner’s Office stated that the Police, after rescuing the baby, handed over the infant to the Alipiri Police in Tirupati. A 13-year-old boy, who…

Seven arrested for assault, kidnap and extortion
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Seven arrested for assault, kidnap and extortion

January 17, 2020

Mysuru/Mysore: Krishnaraja (KR) Police have arrested seven persons on charges of assaulting a youth for petty reason besides kidnapping the youth, extorting money and taking away the youth’s two-wheeler. The arrested are 27-year-old Nithin and 22-year-old Jayanth of Krishnamurthypuram, 25-year-old Akarsh of Ittigegud, 20-year-old K.V. Manjunath and Chandru of Saraswathipuram, 23-year-old B.R. Bharath of Somwarpet…

Auditor’s kidnap: Rowdy-sheeter among three arrested
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Auditor’s kidnap: Rowdy-sheeter among three arrested

December 1, 2019

Kidnapper had demanded Rs.30 lakh ransom Nagamangala: Nagamangala Police have arrested three persons including a rowdy-sheeter on charges of kidnapping the son of Nagamangala Town Municipal Council (TMC) Member and demanding Rs.30 lakh ransom. The arrested are rowdy-sheeter Shabareesh, Mahesh alias Bandli and Kaushik alias Chechi, all from Nagamangala. The Police have spread the dragnet…

Teenage girls kidnapped from city in separate incidents
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Teenage girls kidnapped from city in separate incidents

October 26, 2018

Mysuru: In separate incidents, two teenage girls have been allegedly kidnapped from city and their parents have lodged complaints at Saraswathipuram Police Station in this regard. In the first incident, 17-year-old Aishwarya, a resident of Janata Nagar has been allegedly kidnapped by her lover Mahesh on Oct. 19, according to the complaint lodged by her…

Miscreants in the guise of Police kidnap realtor
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Miscreants in the guise of Police kidnap realtor

August 14, 2018

Mysuru:  A group of miscreants, who had allegedly kidnapped a realtor, released him near Melukote after learning that the Police were behind them. The realtor, who was kidnapped, is 42-year-old Lokesh, a resident of Hommaragalli in H.D. Kote taluk. As Lokesh was assaulted by the kidnappers, the Police have admitted him at a private hospital…

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