Teen found dead
But the suspects found the body floating the next day and decided to bury it in a stone quarry.
Police said Vishal and his friends, Shanta Kumar and Karan Pai, hatched the plot of kidnapping Sharath, believing his father would pay handsomely to save his son.
Vishal exploited Sharath’s love for bikes to lure into a trap. He told him that a friend will be taking his new Italian Benelli bike for a spin on the evening of September 12.
Sharath bit the bait and agreed to join them at a housing complex in Kengeri satellite town.
The kidnappers had drafted Vinay Prasad into the conspiracy and were waiting in his car near the planned meeting point.
When Sharath turned up, he was bundled into the vehicle and the ransom video was made.
But they feared arrest if the hostage was released and murdered him, officer Rathore said.
Vishal is an agent at a regional transport office, Vinay is a private driver, and Pai is a factory worker in the Bidadi industrial area. The other arrested suspect is Vinod Kumar.
Shanta Kumar, who drives a cab attached to an app-based tax service, is on the run.
Vishal apparently had gone to victim’s home in Ullala locality and was with the family even after the FIR about the abduction was filed.
“By the time the FIR was lodged, Sharath was killed…,” PTI quoted Bengaluru police commissioner Suneel Kumar as saying. Karnataka, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat – have carried out the order so far.
The court, while proposing measures to stem what it called growing violence by so-called cow protection groups, had said the nodal officers would have to ensure that vigilantes do not become a law unto themselves.
It had given states a week to comply with the order. The court had also asked states to list steps they would take to step up security on highways, where cow vigilantes have stopped vehicles carrying cattle and attacked people.
Critics have alleged the attacks have risen since the BJPled government took power three years ago, and several states ruled by the party made laws to punish cow slaughter. Critics accuse the vigilantes of using cows as a pretext to target Muslims and Dalits. submit its report in seven days.
Meanwhile, police were yet to register a case in this regard. “Though Noida Authority officials submitted an application, the family members of the three deceased are yet to file a complaint. We are trying to nab Somveer, the contractor, who is absconding. He has switched off his phone,” said Shahwez Khan, SHO of the Phase-ii police station.
According to a witness, Somveer was present at the scene of the incident. However, he fled soon after the police arrived.