Four held for kidnapping couple in Mancherial

Four persons were arrested on the charges of kidnapping a couple in a car at a shopping mall here on Thursday night.

Mancherial: Four persons were arrested on the charges of kidnapping a couple in a car at a shopping mall here on Thursday night.

Mancherial Inspector SP Ravinder said that Gadigoppula Sathish, Chunchu Ajay, and Macha Satish from Velganur village in Dandepalli and Challa Snehith Reddy belonging to Nagaram in Chennur mandal were arrested for allegedly kidnapping Biyyala Ravi and Gayathri of Rally village in Hajipur mandal on Thursday evening. They were apprehended in Chennur town within three hours of the incident.

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During interrogations, Sathish and others confessed to kidnapping the couple for delaying repayment of a loan of Rs.20 lakh given in phased manner to the pair to hunt hidden treasure. They said they had hired the couple to unearth a treasure in the farms of Velganur.

Based on a complaint received from Ravi, a kidnap case was registered against the four. Investigations were taken up.