19 YO Found Dead After A Whatsapp Video For Ransom. He Was Betrayed By His Best Friend.

Talk about friendship and the first quality we look at is, ‘trust’. Believe it or not, but we are all looking out for someone we can confide our deepest secrets to. Someone we can rely on with complete belief and faith. But when this very crux of the friendship or ‘trust’ is broken, it leads to some life devastating outcomes.

In a shocking turn of events, Sharath, a 19-year-old engineering student and the son of an income tax officer from Bangalore was kidnapped and murdered by his own friends for some amount of quick money.

 

The young lad left his house at 6:30 pm on September 12 to meet his friends. After restlessly waiting till 8:30 pm and having received no news about Sharath, his worried parents decided to finally file a missing complaint.

But just a few hours after filing the complaint, Sharath’s mother and sister received something very horrific on their WhatsApp. Here is what the police said to India Today about it,

“The boy’s mother called him many times but the calls went unanswered. Today, his parents and sister received a WhatsApp video from his mobile phone, in which the boy is seen asking them to arrange Rs 50 lakh towards his ransom.

 

The video shows a helpless Sharath begging to his parents for the ransom money. The teenager is seen saying this in a shaky voice.

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“They are demanding Rs 50 lakh. They will call you tomorrow. They have been torturing me. You please pay the ransom.”

However, even before his close ones could think of a way out, police found Sharath’s  body near Rachenahalli lake.

 

After further investigation, it came out that he was kidnapped by his best friend, Vishal and his associates. The gang strangled Sharath with a nylon rope after they found out that his parents had approached the police.

His body was then put in a gunny bag and buried in the lake using stones. Adding more light to the conspiracy, here is what police added,

“Vishal and his men used to check the lake regularly. Sharath’s body started floating in the lake a few days later. These men then tied more stones to the body and dumped it again but failed again. They then took out the body and buried it near the lake.”

 

Vishal and his friends have been arrested by police.

Who could imagine a friend could do this? Who to trust in this world?

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