Posted on 10/28/2025 7:53:11 AM PDT by DFG
A tech tycoon who was abducted, stabbed and shot dead in central California had bullied and humiliated his employees ahead of his grisly murder, a court heard.
Tushar Atre, 50, was dragged out of bed at his Santa Cruz beach house around 3am on October 1, 2019, by a group of men who broke into his plush $5.4 million residence.
The men - two of whom were his employees - stabbed and kidnapped the millionaire, before shooting him and leaving him for dead 14 miles away in a rural mountain area, investigators alleged.
They also stole thousands of dollars in cash from a safe in Atre's home.
Stephen Nicholas 'Nic' Lindsay and Kurtis Charters were convicted of murder and related charges in trials earlier this year, KRON reported. They have been sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Charters's younger brother Kaleb Charters and their friend Joshua Camps have also been charged in Atre's death.
The younger Charters was back in court on Monday as experts and witnesses testified before the jury, alleging that the men had been 'humiliated' at the hands of the tech honcho.
Atre, who bragged about being 'worth thousands of dollars an hour,' forced Lindsay and Kaleb to perform between 300 to 500 push-ups in order to receive their $1,400 paychecks, Atre's right-hand-man Sam Borghese testified.
Lindsay and Kaleb, both of whom were members of the Army National Guard, were hired to work at Atre's marijuana farm in August 2019.
For his part, Borghese - a graduate of the University of California Santa Cruz - had been hired to manage the cannabis business.
Atre 'pushed his employees very hard', invoked fear, and would frequently yell, withhold pay and fire workers if he felt disrespected, Borghese told the court.
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so that’s the excuse? Cartel hit?
Wellllll!
Seems they all deserved each other.
Tushar Atre<<<<< from India I looked it up.
Headline is misleading. He apparently was a ‘drug lord’ as well as a ‘tech tycoon’. It wasn’t as if his tech employees raided his house and murdered him.
While I can’t condone the perps actions, perhaps an alternate moral of the story is “Don’t be a d!ck to your employees”.
CC
The guy’s body was found a few miles up the road...
I would go homeless and live on the street before working for someone from the subcontinent. Their management views are from the dark Agees.
A friend worked briefly for a local insurance company run by a husband and wife team from India. Wife ran the office - one literally had to ask her for toilet paper if one was going to the bathroom.
Tech tycoon’s cannabis business?
What? Is he using AI operated laser UV lights, watering and HVAC? We are deranged and have lost our souls if we are lauding someone like this. And torturing people before letting them have the paycheck they earned does deserve real justice but probably not one that would be forthcoming in a CA court of law.
I guess it’s a side point. But you’d think a guy who owned a $5.4 million house would have the best security monitors that money could buy.
I didn't see anyone here or in the article lauding this creep.
I once interviewed for a tutoring position in a company run by an older Indian guy. I got that exact same vibe. Everything just seemed off.
I was offered the position, but passed.
On his headstone: “He was cruisin’ for a bruisin’!!”
Workers rebel against the unmerciful boss man ! Kill the rich !
Possible pleas to the Santa Cruz jury.
He forced his workers to do push ups, and now he’s pushing up daisies
Indeed.
Good question.
“We are deranged and have lost our souls...”
We? It’s clearly just you.
Why are you addressing this to the forum if you are, admittedly, deranged and soulless?
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