15 more arrested in Secunderabad businessmen’s abduction case

HYDERABAD: Another 15 persons were arrested on Sunday in the sensational abduction of three businessmen, relatives of chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s personal assistant, from their residence at Manovikasnagar in Secunderabad recently.
With the latest arrests, mostly drivers, document writers and others, Hyderabad police have so far arrested 19 persons in the case.
Police had declared 30 persons as accused in this case.
However, former AP minister Bhuma Akhila Priya’shusband Bhargav Ram Naidu, her brother Bhuma Jagat Vikyath Reddy, Bhargav’s mother Kiran Mai Naidu and M Srinivas Rao Chaudhary, also named accused in the case, were absconding.
Based on the confession of the arrested 19 accused, including Akhila Priya, Hyderabad police at a press conference on Sunday said after the three victims— K Praveen Rao, Sunil Rao, Naveen Rao — were kidnapped from their Manovikasnagar residence by some of the arrested accused, who entered their residence by claiming to be income tax officials, police have gathered information to link the sequence of events.
“After the victims were taken to Bhargav’s guesthouse at Moinabad, the accused forced them to sign on 10 stamp papers —five in the name of Bhargav and an equal number in the name of Jagat Vikyat Reddy,’’ deputy commissioner of police (North Zone) Kalmeshwar Shingenavar said.
On January 2 and January 4, Akhila, Bhargav, their close associate Guntur Srinu and a few other persons had met at her residence at Kukatpally and Bhargav’s school at Yousufguda and hatched a conspiracy to abduct the three brothers.
While executing the offence, several cars and bikes were used by the accused.
One of the cars was found to be registered in the name of Bhargav’s mother Kiran Mai.
Though Bhargav did not go inside the victims’ residence on January 5, the day of the abduction, he was waiting outside their residence in a car.