Daijiworld Media Network - Puttur (SP)
Puttur, Sep 15: In an incident which occurred in the taluk on Sunday September 14, the policemen were forced to act in haste in order to arrest the abductors of a person who complained to them that he was being kidnapped. However, at the end, they realized that the man's complaint of abduction was false.
A person who got down from a car that was moving towards Kerala from the town in front of the rural police station located at Sampya, told the policemen present there that three persons were kidnapping him in the car. In dramatic events which followed, the three were held and brought to the police station. However, during interrogation, the police personnel realized that the complainant had misled them through an imaginary story.
It is said that a person named Anwaruddin from Salmara in Chikkamudnoor village had sold his car to a person from Kerala. He was to pay the sale proceeds of the car to Anwar from Kolnadu village, Rafique from Kaniyoor, and Muhammedali from Kaurpady village, to whom he was indebted. The trio was taking Anwar towards Kerala in his own car, when Anwaruddin suddenly claimed on reaching Sampya that he was feeling nauseated. When the car was stopped, he immediately ran into the police station and told the police that he had escaped from the clutches of three car-borne abductors.
On seeing the policemen approaching the car, the people in the car fled from there. The policemen immediately alerted personnel on the route through which the car was moving. Although some policemen tried to intercept the car at Chelyadka near Bettampady, the car escaped at high speed. However, on seeing some policemen near the school at Beliyoorkatte, the person driving the car tried to take a U-turn towards Puttur, but the wheels of the car got stuck in the roadside drain. The locals immediately mobbed the car and handed its occupants over to the police.
The policemen later learnt that Anwaruddin had promised the three persons to pay back a sum of five lac rupees he was to pay them, out of the sale proceeds of the car. He accompanied them till the rural police station, and then tried to fool the police by claiming to have been kidnapped, it is gathered.