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Seven persons, including the proprietor of an automobile repair shop, were arrested for allegedly abducting a mechanic successful a car and assaulting him connected suspicion of theft adjacent Vandalur.
The victim, Saravanan, 24, a nonmigratory of Erikarai Street, Selaiyur, had been moving for the past 4 months astatine an automobile store successful Sholavaram owned by Aslam.
Police said that connected January 15, Aslam opened his store successful the greeting and discovered that ₹60,000 kept successful the currency registry was missing. Attempts to interaction Saravanan failed arsenic his telephone was switched off, and erstwhile Aslam went to his room, it was recovered locked, further raising suspicion that the mechanic had taken the wealth and fled.
Police said Aslam past created a fake Instagram relationship posing arsenic a pistillate and contacted Saravanan, luring him to a spot adjacent Vandalur connected the pretext of meeting. When Saravanan reached the location, Aslam and his associates—Yogesh, Ranjithkumar, Vijayakumar, Masthan, and Nandakumar Mohan—allegedly assaulted him and forcibly bundled him into a car.
Passers-by who witnessed the abduction alerted the police. A squad rushed to the spot, intercepted the vehicle, rescued Saravanan and arrested Aslam on with six others. The car utilized successful the kidnapping was seized.
