Bengaluru Teen, Found Dead After WhatsApp Video, Betrayed By Best Friend

Bengaluru | Friday | 22nd September, 2017

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Highlights 19-year-old student kidnapped on September 12 Had sent WhatsApp video listing kidnappers' demand for 50 lakhs Body found in lake, cops say best friend helped kidnap, kill himSharath, whose father, Niranjan Kumar is a senior income tax official, was kidnapped on September 12. It was cellphone records that helped establish his links to the crime, the police said. His body was then dumped in a lake, but rose up to the top, after which the attackers tied stones to it and tried to sin; it again. With him was his friend, Vishal. A college student's body has been found this morning near a Bengaluru lake, just days after he sent a video to his parents asking them to provide 50 lakhs as ransom to his kidnappers.4 men have been arrested in connection with the crime including one of the student's best friends..