BENGALURU: Two students from Chennai filed a complaint with
Cubbon Park
police, saying a gang of six-seven men kidnapped them from Museum Road on the night of August 23 and forced them to transfer Rs 10 lakh to their accounts.
Based on their complaint, cops registered an FIR against the unidentified men under different sections, including
IPC
’s 364A (kidnapping for ransom).
Shanis Usman Kutty and
Mohammed Shaheen Hamza
, both aged 23, said they had come to Bengaluru in their SUV for personal work on August 23 night.
“The miscreants first blocked our SUV near
Anepalya
and fought with us. Later, they stopped us again on Museum Road, off Church Street, and drove the SUV to a desolate place on Hosur Road. There they forced us to transfer Rs 10 lakh into their
Google account and other bank accounts,” the complaint read.
“Further, the men took us to some other place and forced us to smoke ganja. They stripped us and filmed a video. Finally, they freed us near Nice Road toll on the afternoon of August 24,” the complaint added.