agent wanted rs 5 lakh commission for deal that fell through city police refused to entertain him he had to approach state police a 65yearold exdefence personnel was abducted assaulted threatened and harassed by a citybased real estate agent the agent had collaborated with a police officer attached to the indira nagar police station to intimidate and recover a commission amount of rs 5 lakh from the victim who has a liquor export business the victim had also served as a protocol officer for rajesh pilot a former minister during former prime minister narasimha raos regimewith the city police not entertaining his complaint ravindran p had to approach the state police chief dgigp praveen sood he filed a complaint alleging physical assault robbery extortion kidnapping for ransom and illegal detention against one shankar his driver ravi an associate venkatesh reddy and assistant subinspector asi sureshin a bid to expand his liquor operations ravindran intended to distribute his products through various distributors under the brand name global choice in one such endeavour he came in contact with a real estate agent shankar who introduced him to a managing director of a company willing to distribute his products a proposal was made and the first condition was that the distributor would make a refundable deposit of rs 50 lakh through rtgs or bank transfer in two equal installments however the distributor failed to make the payments and the contract stood cancelledeven though the agreement fell through the real estate agent shankar harassed me for his rs 5lakh commission ravindran told bangalore mirror subsequently shankar filed false and fabricated complaints against me i had to challenge them in the high court and got them quashed he addedon februray 26 when ravindran was kidnapped and assaulted after a few hours of torture shankar and ravi then demanded a ransom of rs 5 lakh for his safe release they forcer ravindran to pay rs 5 lakh and also took away his wrist watch worth rs 15 lakh he was released at 4 pm with the help of a lawyer ravindran filed a complaint with the office of the commissioner of police on infantry road from which it was directed to the divisional dcp east ravindran was summoned at the dcp easts office where he was asked to file a complaint without mentioning asi suresh when ravindran refused to remove the asis name the dcp asked him to visit the station house officer sho of indira nagar police station where asi suresh abused him he also refused to file a complaint with the sho excluding the asis name and filed a complaint with the dgigp the state police chiefs office has promised him that a special team would be formed to probe the caseasi suresh told bm that he had no connection with either ravindran or shankar