Bangalore: Family locks retired cop in house for 17 days, ties him using dog chain


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Bangalore, 31 Aug 2014 (TOI): After serving in police for nearly 35 years, when assistant sub-inspector V Venkatesh retired in June, he looked to lead a peaceful and happy life. Both sons working in IT firms and rent from a few houses adding to the family’s income, 60-year-old Venkatesh had nothing to worry about.

 

But, within two months, Venkatesh’s received a big jolt. His family — wife Nagaratna and sons Chetan and Ranjan — tied him to a cot using a dog chain and left him locked inside the house for weeks. They meted out this inhuman treatment to him after he refused to part with Rs 20 lakh that would come as retirement benefit. They wanted to buy a flat using that money.

 

Venkatesh remained tied to the wooden cot for 17 days, relieving himself in a bedpan there and having his meals in the same room.

 

The ordeal would have continued and become worse had it not been for his younger brother V Ramachandra who started searching for him.

 

As Venkatesh’s wife and sons did not allow him inside the house and behaved suspiciously, Ramachandra approached the court seeking a search warrant. Acting on the court’s direction, when Girinagar police raided the house in SBM Layout, Srinivasnagar, South Bangalore on August 28, they found Venkatesh locked inside.

 

Nagaratna and elder son Chetan have been sent to judicial custody while police are searching for Ranjan. Nagaratna is a housewife while Chetan is an MTech working with HP on Mysore road. Chetan had worked in Canada between 2011 and 2013, Venkatesh said adding that Ranjan works as a software engineer with Infosys. Both sons are bachelors.

 

Venkatesh, who retired as assistant sub inspector attached to KG Nagar police station in June, recalled how his family attacked and gagged him on the night of August 11. "Just after dinner, the three started forcing me to share all the pension money and other retirement benefits. When I refused to do so, they tied my legs with a dog chain, locked the other end to a cot. I was freed on August 28 noon when Girinagar police raided the house," he said.

 

According to Venkatesh, his wife fed him breakfast and meals in the same place and he was given bedpan for relieving himself.

 

An investigating officer told that the room had foul odour. "Don’t know how Venkatesh survived there for 17 days," he said.

 

 

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