Mohan Kuthar
Daijiworld Media Network – Mangaluru (RJP)
Mangaluru, Jun 20: The kidnapping episode of a tailor from Mudipu by a group of four persons that had taken place on the night of Friday, June 17, has taken a new twist with the kidnapped man complaining to the police against his own wife and her paramour.
Dharanappa Poojary (42), the kidnapped person, is the complainant. He has named his wife Jayalakshmi, her alleged lover Hafiz and notorious criminal Rafiq in the police complaint lodged at Konaje police station.
Dharanappa Poojary at hospital
Hafiz lives in a foreign country. Dharanappa has alleged that Hafiz had an illicit relationship with Jayalakshmi and engaged Rafiq through Jayalakshmi to eliminate him. It is mentioned in the complaint that Dharanappa took up illicit relationship issue with Jayalakshmi regularly. Jayalakshmi, disturbed by this fact, got in touch with hafiz to eliminate Dharanappa, it is alleged.
Dharanappa Poojary was kidnapped by four people on Friday night. Jayalakshmi had lodged a complaint about his disappearance at Konaje police station on the same night.
The kidnappers assaulted Dharanappa, robbed Rs 10,000 cash and gold chain weighing four sovereign before throwing him on the road near Puttur and fled. Dharanappa got admitted in Puttur government hospital on Saturday June 18 morning.
Police had from the beginning suspected the involvement of notorious criminal Rafiq in the incident.
All the kidnappers have gone to Bengaluru, it is suspected. Konaje police are trying to arrest them soon.