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Mumbai: The three students who were arrested for using gangster Chhota Rajan’s name to threaten a teacher, were produced before a local court on Saturday. They have now been sent to the remand home in Dongri.
According to police, the students were inspired by the film Style. In the movie, two students — Chantu and Bantu — intimidate their professor over the phone, saying they have links with gangsters, and force him to give them high grades.
The students had threatened Virasat Raza Sayyed (29), a mathematics teacher at Sinhal Coaching Classes in Tardeo, in a similar manner on September 11. They had called Sayyed from their cellphone and told him that they were members of the Chhota Rajan gang and that they would eliminate him because he had scolded one of his students for misbehaviour. According to the police, the trio had admitted that they had made the calls to their professor.
The boys, all aged 17, are students of science in standard XI at a college in the western suburbs. They have been booked under various sections of the IPC, including intentional insult and criminal intimidation.
“Two of them used their cellphones to make the calls at regular intervals,’’ said sub-inspector (investigating officer) Manoj Chalke, Meghwadi police station. He added that the police tracked them from the cellphone numbers given by Sayyed.
“The students and their families were asked to come down to the police station,’’ Chalke said. The students told the police that they had bought the cellphones 15 days before they had made the threat calls.
The three boys are the only sons in their families. “Two boys’ fathers are unwell and are undergoing treatment, while the third boy’s father is a retired postman,’’ the police said.
narayan.namboodiri@timesgroup.com
According to police, the students were inspired by the film Style. In the movie, two students — Chantu and Bantu — intimidate their professor over the phone, saying they have links with gangsters, and force him to give them high grades.
The students had threatened Virasat Raza Sayyed (29), a mathematics teacher at Sinhal Coaching Classes in Tardeo, in a similar manner on September 11. They had called Sayyed from their cellphone and told him that they were members of the Chhota Rajan gang and that they would eliminate him because he had scolded one of his students for misbehaviour. According to the police, the trio had admitted that they had made the calls to their professor.
The boys, all aged 17, are students of science in standard XI at a college in the western suburbs. They have been booked under various sections of the IPC, including intentional insult and criminal intimidation.
“Two of them used their cellphones to make the calls at regular intervals,’’ said sub-inspector (investigating officer) Manoj Chalke, Meghwadi police station. He added that the police tracked them from the cellphone numbers given by Sayyed.
“The students and their families were asked to come down to the police station,’’ Chalke said. The students told the police that they had bought the cellphones 15 days before they had made the threat calls.
The three boys are the only sons in their families. “Two boys’ fathers are unwell and are undergoing treatment, while the third boy’s father is a retired postman,’’ the police said.
narayan.namboodiri@timesgroup.com
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