Maharashtra: Man held for abducting Wadachiwadi resident

PUNE: The Kondhwa police on Monday arrested a man and booked his two accomplices, including a woman, on the charges of abducting a 23-year-old private firm employee in a car from Wadachiwadi and attacking and robbing him of two cellphones and Rs2,000 in Vishrantwadi on July 17.
The Pune cantonment court on Tuesday sent the man, Riyan Khurana, in police remand till July 22. Khurana is a resident of Mangaldas Road.
“The Wadachiwadi resident was a friend with the woman for three years. They had, however, stopped talking to each other for over seven months after their relations turned sour,” said senior inspector Sardar Patil from the Kondhwa police on Tuesday.
“Around 2pm on July 17, the Wadachiwadi resident had walked out of a housing society to visit a bank. One of the suspects, later identified as Khurana, accosted the youth and identified himself as the woman’s brother. Khurana told the man to accompany him and a dispute broke out. A security guard advised them not to fight on the society premises and told them to settle the dispute outside,” he said.
“Khurana then forced the man to step into a car parked outside the society. The woman and another suspect were in the car. The trio beat him up and one of them drove the vehicle to Vishrantwadi. After halting at a place, the three persons again beat up the man and hit him with a glass bottle. They then robbed him of his two cellphones and Rs2,000 in cash and freed him,” Patil said.
The man registered an FIR against the trio relating to kidnapping and armed robbery, among other charges, of the Indian Penal Code on July 18. “We have arrested Khurana. A team of our officers is searching for the two other suspects,” he added.