Coimbatore: Cop, 6 others arrested for extorting money

COIMBATORE: A traffic policeman, who was placed under suspension, and his six accomplices were arrested by the city police on Thursday for kidnapping a college student and extorting Rs 81,000 from him at Kuniyamuthur.
S Kaviyarasu, 20, a final year BSC (compute science) student of a private college, smoked marijuana at his rental room along with his friends at BK Pudur near Kuniyamuthur on April 26 night.
The cop, S Ayyalu Ganesh, 38, of Kovaipudur, and his two friends M Sathishkumar, 28, of Kannamanaickanur near Madukkarai, and A Afsal Ali, 33, of Kovaipudur, took video of Kaviyarasu smoking marijuana (ganja).
They threatened the college student that they would upload the video on social media and demanded Rs 50,000 from him.
Three days later, Kaviyarasu gave Rs 43,000 to Ayyalu Ganesh. But the cop forwarded the video to his friend Faizal on April 30.
Faizal and six others hatched a plan on the same day and kidnapped Kaviyarasu and confided him in a room. They demanded Rs 2 lakh from Kaviyarasu to release him. However, they released him after he paid Rs 38,000 in cash to Faizal.
However, Faizal and others kept demanding the remaining amount. Unable to bear the torture, Kaviyarasu approached the Kuniyamuthur police who registered a case. Police arrested Ayyalu Ganesh, Sathishkumar, Afsal N Saleem Basha, 38, B Nowshath, 36, S Jainulabuddin, 38, and K Sivanandam, 30. Three more accused involved in the case are absconding. Ayyalu Ganesh, who was attached to Coimbatore city police, was arrested in December 2019 for assaulting his wife and his mother-in-law over a family dispute at Sundakkamuthur. Later, he was placed under suspension.