AHMEDABAD: Sola police on Friday revealed the details of a sordid saga of love rivalry in which a man was kidnapped by four assailants who thrashed him and stripped him to record his nude video.
Police have arrested the four. The cops said that both the main accused and the victim were in love with the same woman.
Ritesh Patel, 25, of Ghatlodia was kidnapped on March 24 by Meet Patel, a DJ, and others. A complaint was filed on the following day. The complaint states that Ritesh had been in love with the woman in question for over six years, since his school days. He is now in the third year of the civil engineering course at a Khatraj college.
Ritesh said that on March 24, he was standing near Trishala Residency when four persons arrived on the scene in a car. They were wearing masks. They approached him and blasted him for interacting with the woman. It became clear soon that one of the men was Meet, who pushed Ritesh into the car and abused and slapped him. Ritesh stated that he was taken to an isolated place where he was beaten severely. He said that he was even branded on his face. The accused later left him on SG Highway.
Police said that the woman had first come across Meet six months ago at a party at which he was the DJ. In time, the woman apparently began to develop feelings for Meet. But she continued to remain in love with Ritesh.
Police said that one day Meet checked the woman’s cellphone and found messages between her and Ritesh. The woman allegedly said that Ritesh had been forcing her to talk with him. Eventually, she admitted that she continued to have a relationship with Ritesh.Police said Meet was incensed by the woman’s confession and planned the kidnapping with his friends Deepak Patel, Saurin Patel, and Chirag Yadav. Police have now sent Meet’s cellphone to the forensic science laboratory to recover the nude video which he had deleted.