Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Four persons allegedly kidnapped a man from Kolar area in a car around 4.30 pm, police said here on Friday. The crime was committed allegedly over a love triangle.
The victim and the accused had fallen for the same woman; and the kidnapper abducted the man to mount pressure on him to leave her.
The married woman is separated from her husband and is a mother of a child, said police.
DCP Jitendra Singh Pawar said that a woman approached the police claiming that the man with whom she was in a live-in relationship was kidnapped. She told police that four persons came in a car and abducted her friend.
Acting on the complaint the police alerted all its outposts. The SP said that the car used in the crime was a taxi that has registration no of Rajgarh district.
The woman had left her husband and started living with the man. The person who allegedly kidnapped the man from Kolar is also in a relationship with the woman.
They came in contact through social media platforms and became friends. Later they entered into a relationship. Sources said that kidnapping of the man was done to mount pressure on him to leave the woman.