Bengaluru: Week after kidnapping, I-T officer's 19-yr-old son's body recovered

Bengaluru: Police have recovered body of Sharath, son of an Income Tax officer, who was kidnapped on September 12.

According to PTI, police have arrested four people including a friend of the victim in connection with the crime.

The decomposed body of 19-year-old Sharath was found buried near the Ramohalli lake, police said.

The victim's car was parked near the spot, police said, adding, fearing action by them the abductors killed him.

Sharath, son of Income-Tax officer Niranjan Kumar, had left home at Ullala in his new car on September 12, telling his parents that he will back soon. However, he did not return home till late in the night.

His parents tried calling him but to no avail.

Two days later he sent a WhatsApp video message telling his parents to arrange Rs 50 lakh to pay his abductors as ransom.

His parents had lodged a complaint with the police and a manhunt was launched to trace the him but the police drew a blank.

Sharath was a student of automobile engineering at Acharya Institute of Engineering.

With Inputs from PTI.