bangalore the lure of quick money led to a trio hatching a plan to kidnap a schoolboy who lived next door however instead of getting the rs 50 lakh they demanded as ransom the three are now behind bars after hoskote police arrested them harish a resident of kanakanagar near hoskote rayan alias babu from horamavu and m santhoshkumar from a narayanapura village kidnapped kiran kumar a class 8 student while he was returning from school kiran son of venkatswamappa from kattugollahallli stayed at his relative jayarams place in kanakanagar his school was in hoskote harish knew venkatswamappa had recently sold some land and bought a building in hoskote on november 19 when kiran was returning home two strangers asked him the way to his house stating they wanted to see jayaram when he got into their car the kidnappers took him to rayans house in horamavu and gagged and tied him up in a room there the accused then allegedly called venkataswamappa demanding rs 50 lakh as ransom they called jayaram too the trio used coin booths across the city to make the calls and fixed various locations kolar doddaballapur nagavara every time as the meeting point jayaram contacted hoskote police who arrested the three three held for hijack murder bangalore rural police have arrested three persons who hijacked a loaded truck and killed a man on wednesday night the lorry loaded with 15 tons of steel belonging to sunvik company tumkur was hijacked by a gang of five at the dobbespet weigh bridge the robbers drove the lorry to shivagange assaulted the driver near kalyani and also murdered ronald a watchman who was in the lorry they disposed the body in a well the arrested are shabari girisha nagaraja alias naga and dinesha alias chetan all residents of dobbespet police have recovered the stolen lorry with the steel and a mobile phone all worth around rs 15 lakh sandalwood poachers arrested ashoknagar police have arrested three men trying to cut a sandalwood tree in front of republic nursing home in langford garden on thursday night the police saw six persons trying to cut the tree three men managed to flee and the police nabbed muniraja 26 riyaz baig 31 and idayat 26 all from kolar district sandalwood worth over rs 1 lakh and a fourwheeler were recovered