Three teenagers arrested for loot and making obscene clip in Allahabad

ALLAHABAD: Three teenagers, two of them studying in class XI and XII, were arrested on October 4 on charges of committing loot in a property dealer's house and making vulgar clip of his wife on September 17.

Acting upon specific tip off, a police team on Wednesday nabbed the three near Subedarganj. They are between 16 and 18 years old.

One stolen scooty, a mobile phone, one 0.315 bore country-made pistol, 2 cartridges, looted gold and silver jewellery, documents and registration and insurance papers of a car were recovered from them. SSP Anand Kulkarni said the 3 had committed loot in the house of a property dealer in Dhoomanganj on September 17. They barged into the victim's house in the morning and held his 3 family members captive. One of them made the vulgar clip of the wife of the property dealer at gunpoint and later deleted some portion of it.

The property dealer was not returning Rs 6 lakh to the father of one of accused after a land deal, the trio had hatched the conspiracy to teach him a lesson. They had stolen a scooty from Mundera Bazaar on August 17 to commit the crime.

"The property dealer was refusing to return the money to the father of one of the accused. The trio first stole a two-wheeler to reach the house of the victim and kept on demanding Rs 20 lakh from the property dealer for not making the vulgar clip public," a senior police officer said.

The father of one of the accused had made a deal to sell a property for Rs 14 lakh. After the sale, the dealer had paid only Rs 8 lakh to him and remaining amount was not paid despite repeated efforts, the official added.