On Wednesday, the Chidambaram police arrested four people, including a Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) functionary, in connection with a kidnapping in Chidambaram, Cuddalore district. They are looking for five more people who have fled the scene in connection with the case.
Haja Moideen, a native of Chidambaram, who worked in an IT firm, has quit his job and now lives in Mumbai with his family. He owns houses and plots in Neelangarai and other parts of Chennai, Chidambaram, and Thanjavur.
He recently traveled from Mumbai to Thanjavur to visit his sister and planned to sell his Chidambaram property, which he purchased from Jamaaludeen in 2017.
On learning about Haaja Moideen’s plan to sell the property, Jamaaludeen threatened him to return the property for the same price that he sold in 2017. However, Haaja Moideen refused to sell the property to Jamaaludeen, which annoyed him.
In this situation, 9 persons including Jamaaluddin, VCK’s Chidambaram Parliamentary Constituency Secretary VK Chellappan, abducted Haaja Moideen who came in a car to Lalkhan Street in Chidambaram on November 5th. Subsequently, Jamaaludeen and VK Chellappan locked Haja Moideen in a hotel room in the Vandigate area for two days, demanded the original property documents, beat him up, and severely assaulted him.
He somehow informed his friend Kumar in Chennai about the kidnapping. Following his friend’s complaint, Chidambaram police rushed to the spot and found them missing. On inquiry, it was revealed that the abducted Haja Moideen was transferred in a car to another location. The police then traced the car through the GPS signal of the mobile phones inside the car and intercepted it on the way to Chennai in the Pallikaranai area under the jurisdiction of the Neelangarai police.
Subsequently, the police rescued Haja Moideen and arrested four people involved in the kidnapping, including Jamaluddin, VCK functionary VK Chellappan, Vijayabaskar of Omakulam, Ravindran from Manalur, as well as confiscating the car used in the kidnapping. The police are looking for five people who are absconding in this case, namely Mohammad Rafiq, Senthil, Nadanam, Natraj, and Bala.
(with inputs from Dinamani)
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