Mapusa builder escapes from a movie-style kidnapping

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MAPUSA
Mapusa Police have booked a case of kidnapping and dacoity against unknown persons for holding a Mapusa-based builder on ransom.
According to the complainant, Tarak Arolkar, who is a builder from Peddem-Mapusa, some seven to eight persons waylaid him and his driver on September 16 night when they were returning from Mahableshwar.
He had gone to Mahableshwar to meet his son, who is studying there.
Arolkar in his complaint said on his way back to Goa, he received a phone call from one person at around 8 pm who said he wanted to meet him (complainant).
"I told the phone caller to meet me at Nipani as I was driving down to Goa," Arolkar said in his complaint.
When the complainant reached near the Nipani check post, a Swift car suddenly came in front of his vehicle and his driver halted the vehicle.
"Some seven to eight persons got down from the Swift car and began to rough me up and the driver," Arolkar said.
Soon some people moving on the road gathered around the vehicle to take stock, but the unknown persons told them that they were police and asked them to move away, the complainant said.
Meanwhile, four of the seven persons got inside the complainant's car and covered the complainant's face with a mask and drove him to an unknown destination.
The complainant said the kidnappers took away three rings, one chain, a laptop, cash of Rs 10,000, a personal fire arm, an ATM card, two mobile phones.
He said later in the night they tortured him and made him call his friends and relatives and asked them to get more cash. Under pressure, he called one of his staff and asked him to get Rs 3 lakh and a cheque book.
He said the staff brought the cash the next day which was taken by one of the unknown persons, the complainant said.
He further said on September 18, he got up early in the morning and found the three persons who were guarding him were fast asleep.
"Taking advantage of the situation, I jumped out of the window and ran to the nearby highway and reached Goa," he told the Mapusa Police.
Mapusa Police has registered a complaint against unknown persons under Sections 341, 364, 364 (a), 342, 395, 504, 506 and 506 (2) of the IPC and Section 3 of the Arms Act. The case has been transferred to Bijapur Police for further investigation, as the incident happened in Nipani, Maharashtra.