In a shocking incident, seven employees of a Bengaluru-based start-up abducted their boss and tortured him for not paying their salary. Dejected after the abductions, the victim reportedly tried to kill himself by consuming tablets and rat poison.
According to the reports, a 23-year-old entrepreneur Sujay SK from Cambridge Layout in Halsuru was kidnapped twice by seven of his employees, including a woman, as a way to recover their due payments after the start-up initiated by Sujay failed within a month.
Sujay was taken by his employees to a farmhouse in Maddur where he was locked up and tortured. After the incident, he had lost interest in his life and was feeling very demotivated after the abduction and torture by his employees. The circumstances forced him to take extreme steps when he tried to end his life by consuming 30 sleeping pills and rat poison
Sujay did not file a police complaint even after the abduction and torture. The Halsuru police became aware of the incident only after receiving a complaint from the hospital where he was admitted after he tried to commit suicide.
The police have booked a case against the gang including Vishwa, Tanzeem, Rashmi, Likith, Rakesh, Darshan and Sanjay under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) section 351 (assault), 362 (abduction) and section 503 (criminal intimidation).
