One more held in businessman abduction case in Erode

In transportation with the abduction of a businessman successful Thalavadi connected December 3, 2025, constabulary connected Thursday (January 1, 2026) arrested different subordinate of the gang.

P. Kishore Kumar, who runs a textile store and a hardware store and is engaged successful aggregate businesses, had gone for his regular nighttime locomotion on the Thalavadi–Thalamalai Road aft closing his shop. While speaking connected the telephone with his younger brother, Rakesh Kumar, a doc astatine a backstage infirmary successful Coimbatore, helium abruptly screamed for help. The telephone got disconnected, , and attempts to interaction him failed arsenic his mobile telephone was switched off.

Rakesh lodged a ailment with the Thalavadi police, pursuing which a lawsuit was registered and a hunt cognition was launched. As the constabulary intensified the search, the kidnappers abandoned Kishore successful the Kumbaragundi wood country adjacent the Tamil Nadu–Karnataka border.

Police earlier arrested Devaraj (57) of Kolipalya successful Chamarajanagar district, Karnataka, and Manjunathan (30) of Chikkagajanur adjacent Thalavadi. During interrogation, they confessed to abducting Kishore Kumar with the volition of extorting wealth from his family. Subsequently, Yasin (19), besides from Chamarajanagar district, was arrested and produced earlier a court, which remanded him to judicial custody. Police said efforts were nether mode to unafraid 1 much accused progressive successful the case.