THREE ARRESTED FOR ABDUCTING TN TEACHER AND ROBBING HER

MUMBAI: Befriending a stranger who gave her a missed call cost a 27-year-old teacher from Tamil Nadu dearly. The accused allegedly abducted the teacher with the help of two accomplices and robbed her of valuables at knifepoint inside a moving car. The trio also threw the woman out of the moving car on Eastern Freeway after robbing her, police said.

Police said the accused robbed the woman of 40 grams gold and cash that was in her purse.

The arrested trio has been identified as Prabhaharan Nadar alias Kumar, 28, Esikiappan Nadar, 33 and Krishnan Murliyar, 23, all residents of Kandivli.

The complainant in her statement to the police said she got a missed call from Kumar a year ago. The duo soon got talking and became friends.

“Last week, the woman came to Mumbai to attend a wedding and also met Kumar,” said an official attached to RAK Marg police station. “On May 28, Kumar hired a rental car and under the guise of dropping her at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj station (CSMT), took her for a ride,” the official said. Kumar was accompanied by his two accomplices. The woman was driven to Eastern Freeway, where Murliyar threatened her at knife-point and made her remove the gold chain she was wearing. The accused then threw her out of the running car and fled the spot, the official said.

The accused were arrested with the help of CCTV footage.