Two held for luring techie into massage and robbing him

CHENNAI: Two persons have been arrested by the Nungambakkam police in connection with the attack on a software engineer who was robbed of gold and cash by a duo, who lured him to a place in Nungambakkam claiming that he would be provided 'massage' services.

The 29-year-old, a resident of Nungambakkam had got in touch with his eventual attackers through Locanto, a free classifieds website, police said.

On the evening of September 7, the techie went to a room in Nungambakkam after co-ordinating with his callers and was waiting for his massage when, to his shock, two men came into the room.

Before the techie could react, the duo tied him up and attacked him.

Later, they took his gold chain, gold ring and cash worth Rs 4000 from his wallet.

The attackers also threatened the techie to share the PIN numbers for the debit cards in his wallet and fled the scene.

According to the victim's complaint to the conmen, his attackers had withdrawn a total of over Rs 2 lakh from his cards.

Based on the techie's complaint, Nungambakkam Police registered a case and based on CCTV footage and the description provided by the victim, Police arrested S Karthikeyan (23) of Coimbatore and M Vigneshwaran (24) of Chidambaram, Cuddalore district.

Police recovered the gold ring and Rs 55,000 cash from the accused. They were produced before a magistrate and remanded to judicial custody.