Chennai, June 12 (BPNS)
The CB-CID team of Tamil Nadu police is interrogating a Police officer, M. Saravanan,arrested for kidnapping a businessman in 2019. Saravanan is the first police personnel arrested in this case in which a DSP ranked officer, Sivakumar, Sub Inspector Pandiaraj, and three other constables are absconding.
Sources in Tamil Nadu home department told BPNS that a businessman, Rajesh had complained to the DGP that the then Assistant Commissioner of police, Sivakumar, inspector Saravanan, sub-inspector Pandiaraj, and three constables held him under detention. In the complaint to the DGP, according to sources in the Tamil Nadu home department, the businessman complained that he, his mother, his fiancée, and her brother were forcibly held in a farmhouse at Red Hills, Chennai in 2019 and forced him to transfer valuable properties in the name of Tharun Krishna Prasad and Srinivasa Rao.
The DGP forwarded the petition to the inspection wing of the CB-CID who registered a case on illegal detainment, forcible transfer of valuable properties and woman harassment charges in May 2022.
The CB-CID team have already arrested Sri Kandan, Venkita Sivanaga kumar, Dhanapal ,Shaukath Ali, Nandakumar and Saravanakumar in connection with the case for aiding and abetting the policemen in the kidnapping and transfer of properties.
