Daijiworld Media Network – Udupi (SP)
Udupi, Apr 4: Vaishali, wife of A Krishmurty from Bolargudde in Udyavar near here, who was abducted on Thursday April 1 morning from her home and dropped off the same evening at Udupi, recorded her statement about her kidnap with the Kaup police on Friday April 2.
In her statement, Vaishali has accused her divorced husband, Khandoba, and his brother, Gajanan from Belgaum, of kidnapping her. “When I was sweeping the courtyard of my home at about 5.30 am on Thursday, Gajanan forcibly pulled me away by holding my mouth tightly. As I have been suffering from lung infection since some time, I could not raise an alarm. An Indigo car had been hired from Udupi to take me to Belgaum. The car reached Khandoba’s home at around 11.30 am, but I refused to enter his house. Later, they took me to my parents’ home,” she explained.
Vaishali said the abductors then got her signatures forcibly on some papers, and warned that herself and her husband, Krishnamurty, would be at risk if they continue to live together. “By then, private news channels had aired the news of my abduction, and the Kaup policemen had called the accused over phone, warning him to release me. Developing cold feet at this development, they released me,” she explained.
She said, she returned in the same car along with her aunt, Seeta. The driver, who was from Udupi, helped her to reach home, she added. Vaishali felt that her husband had taken her signatures to get access to life insurance money, gold ornaments kept in the bank, in addition to threaten herself and her husband.
Vaishali, who has become physically weak due to this ordeal, is being treated as an in-patient in Ajjarkad government hospital.