A 50-year-old lawyer and his elder brother have been arrested in Kanpur for allegedly kidnapping and assaulting a 17-year-old boy after they noticed him having a chilly drink with the lawyer’s teenaged daughter at a store, mentioned police.
The police mentioned the matter got here to gentle when the accused lawyer known as the sufferer’s father and threatened to kill his son if he didn’t arrive at a given location inside an hour.
The sufferer’s father instantly approached the police, who apprehended the lawyer and his brother. Primarily based on data supplied by them, the police positioned the sufferer on the lawyer’s farmhouse, the place they discovered him (sufferer) together with his palms and legs tied with ropes, added the police officer.
“The lawyer and his brother have been produced earlier than a courtroom which despatched them to judicial custody,” mentioned a police officer.
The accused have been booked on fees of kidnapping and different offences. ENS