Chandigarh, May 2 -- A 20-year-old BCA final-year student from Ram Darbar was allegedly abducted by four unidentified men at gunpoint and forced to pay Rs.1.3 lakh as ransom for his release here on April 29. The accused threatened to frame him in a false drug case and kill him if he failed to comply.

The victim, identified as Rahul, is a student at the Logonwal Group of Colleges, Dera Bassi.

According to the FIR, the incident occurred around 7.40 pm when his mother asked him to arrange transport for his grandmother. He took his Honda Activa and went toward the power grid in Hallomajra, where a white Maruti Suzuki Swift car with a Punjab registration plate suddenly pulled up beside him.

"Four men, including the driver, forcibly dragged ...