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Karnataka yoga teacher escapes death, outsmarts kidnappers using breathing control skill. Photo courtesy: Representative image from Pixabay

K'taka yoga teacher escapes death, outsmarts kidnappers using breathing control skill after being molested, stripped

| @indiablooms | Nov 09, 2024, at 04:57 am

Dibburahali/IBNS: A 34-year-old yoga teacher evaded the clutches of her kidnappers based on her mastery over breathing control skills after she was abducted from near Devanahalli in Karnataka, taken to a forest about 30km away, stripped, molested, and strangled by the miscreants, media reports said.

The incident occurred on October 23. When the woman pretended to be dead, her abductors dug a pit and dumped her in it before running away by spreading a thin layer of earth on it, according to a Times Of India report.

They escaped with whatever jewellery the woman had on her.

The woman then managed to wriggle out of the pit, borrowed clothes and got herself admitted at a hospital a day later.

Four men, a woman and a juvenile have been arrested in the case.

According to reports, the abduction was done on request of the arrested woman, Bindu, 27.

She reportedly suspected her husband Santosh Kumar of having an affair with the victim woman and asked her friend Satish Reddy, who ran a detective agency in Bengaluru, to run a check on her.

Satish allegedly befriended the yoga teacher to take lessons from her. On Oct 23, he went to her house at 10:30 AM and asked her to accompany him to a rifle-shooting session near her house.

While she was in his car, three more men and a boy got into the car. All of them then drove straight to a forested area where the men disrobed and molested her before strangling the woman with a cable.

The woman later told the police that her ability to hold breath as a part of her yoga techniques saved her life as her kidnappers assumed she was dead when she collapsed to the ground.

Besides Bindu, police have arrested Satish Reddy (40), Raman (34), Nagendra Reddy (35), Ravichandra (27), and the minor boy.

Satish, Ramana, and Nagendra hail from Andhra Pradesh, while the juvenile and Ravichandra are from Raichur district.

The police arrested the accused from different locations in Karnataka.

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