Kidnapping ends in a ‘gut-wrenching’ tale
Person swallows 2 gold biscuits for a commission, but purges only one particular on arrival in Mumbai, prompting smugglers to kidnap him, need Rs 15L from his kin


The man was designed to swallow two gold biscuits each and every weighing 160 grams. Representation pic





A man from Telangana swallowed two gold biscuits ahead of traveling from Dubai to Mumbai for a commission. He was to pass on the yellow steel to members of a smuggling syndicate. He walked out of the airport but did not realise he had currently purged one particular biscuit prior to landing. When his overall body dispensed just a single, the syndicate kidnapped him and demanded Rs 15 lakh ransom from his spouse and children. The law enforcement have arrested two gentlemen for his abduction.
Shankar Mathamalla, 45, was kidnapped barely a working day just after he landed in Mumbai on June 22. The kidnappers left him around a railway station in Puducherry following they realised the police ended up tracking them. As they continued their probe immediately after Mathamalla was rescued, the Sion law enforcement arrested two guys with backlinks to an global gold smuggling syndicate. What appeared to be a straight kidnapping tale turned out to be a great deal extra convoluted.
Resources reported the guy was designed to swallow two gold biscuits just about every weighing 160 grams. He was to give the treasured metal truly worth Rs 16 lakh to the smugglers and was promised a commission of Rs 10,000 for the position. Mathamalla was also carrying 11,000 Dirhams—about Rs 2.4 lakh—that he experienced gained in the previous two several years.

A resident of Nandagiri city of Telangana’s Jagtial district, Mathamalla experienced told his household he was accompanying a particular person from Tamil Nadu. When they couldn’t attain him, they termed the particular person who explained he had left Mathamalla at Sion. His son Harish then rushed to Mumbai and submitted a missing complaint. But that was not the situation.

The kidnappers produced Shankar Mathamalla in Puducherry when they realised the cops ended up closing in on them

A law enforcement officer stated, “A individual named Abu fulfilled Mathamalla in Mumbai and took him to a toilet exactly where one pill arrived out with his excreta. But there was no sign of the other. He was then taken to a resort at Sion where by the smugglers waited for a working day for the other gold pill to arrive out.”

Suspecting that Mathamalla experienced double-crossed it, the gang took him to Chennai by flight, then to Trichy and Puducherry. Mathamalla was severely crushed and R15 lakh ransom was demanded from his family members on June 27. His captive pictures were being shared with his spouse and children to pressure them to shell out up. They alerted the Sion police about the ransom demand from customers.

A staff from Sion law enforcement rescued Mathamalla from Puducherry. Monitoring the numbers for ransom phone calls, they detained a few loved ones members of the kidnappers. Realising that the police have been at the rear of them, the kidnappers unveiled Mathamalla close to a railway station at Karikali in Puducherry.

The cops then arrested Abu, alias Aurangjeeb Akbar, 38, from Tamil Nadu who evidently experienced gained Mathamalla in Mumbai on his arrival. Abu’s accomplice Vijay, alias Pura Vijay Vasudevan, 25, was also arrested. The law enforcement explained the mastermind, Raja, alias Haja Kamluddin Majid, is continue to at huge.

Senior inspector of Sion police station Manoj Hirlekar claimed the two have been remanded in police custody for 7 days and the hunt for the mastermind is on. On staying requested about the 2nd tablet, Mathamalla instructed the cops that he could possibly have unknowingly purged it out right before landing in Mumbai.










