Soni's Kidnap Case: Cops say kidnapper has criminal history

Ongole: The Prakasam district police denied the arrest or custody of the kidnapper Ravisekhar and claimed that they do not know about the girl boarding bus to Hyderabad until the Hyderabad police inform them.

But, they reveal that Ravisekhar has about 60 to 70 cases in both Telugu states, including a cheat sheet in his own town, Kankipadu of Krishna district. They said that he is a habitual offender, who tricks women in the name of jobs and sexually abuse them before getting rid of them somewhere else. The Prakasam police have also informed that the kidnapper Ravisekhar has convinced a woman from Seethanagaram in East Godavari district 10 days ago to get her daughter placed in a multinational company. He charged the woman for about Rs 60,000 in cash and forced her for intercourse. But the woman escaped from his clutches claiming that HIV positive and taking medicine for the disease. Later, he moved to Hyderabad and kidnapped the woman at Hayatnagar.

The Prakasam police said that they had received information from Hyderabad police that the woman Soni boarded a bus to Hyderabad from Addanki. She called her father from the mobile of a woman sitting beside her and informed about her coming to Hyderabad, who exchanged the info with the police.