Overview

• Three co-accused — Mithun, Aneesh and Sona Mol — have been arrested and remanded in connection with the alleged kidnapping and assault of an IT employee in Kochi.
• Kochi City Police Commissioner Putta Vimaladitya said Menon is among the accused, with investigators examining video that purportedly shows her group blocking a car near Ernakulam North Bridge.
• The FIR cites multiple Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita provisions, including kidnapping or abduction, wrongful restraint and confinement, voluntarily causing hurt and criminal intimidation.
• The complainant, identified as Aliyarsha Salim, alleges he was chased after a bar dispute on August 24, pulled into another car, assaulted and released near the Aluva–Paravur area around midnight.
• Police are probing both the primary complaint and a counter-complaint filed by Sona Mol, while Menon, in her anticipatory bail plea, has denied the allegations as false and motivated.