Makers of crime shows CID and Crime Patrol have reacted strongly to police claims that the recent kidnapping and murder of a Pune teenager by his friends was inspired by these shows. Relating the incident, in which three teenagers abducted their schoolmate, strangled him to death and collected Rs
15,000 ransom from his father last week, inspector Motichand Rathod had said, “All three confessed that they wanted to have fun, but easy money could only come from crime. Among the television serials they regularly watched were CID and Crime Patrol.”

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