Delhi Police claimed to have rescued a 23-year-old businessman in Rohini area within an hour of him getting kidnapped. A senior police officer on Wednesday said that the incident took place on midnight after a brief encounter between the accused and the police team.

Rishi Pal, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Rohini) said, “The  businessman was rescued safely with his car within an hour of the incident. One of the armed kidnappers tried to fire at the police party. The police party retaliated and one of the kidnappers got injured,”

Police said that the weapon used in the crime has also been recovered. It all happened on Tuesday night when Nithish Arora (23), a resident of Pitam Pura, was returning from his factory in Kundli Industrial Area in neighbouring Sonipat district. After he crossed Singhu Border at GT Karnal Road, the accused persons who were travelling in a white car started following him. They hit the rear side of his car.

“The victim thought it to be a case of accident and when the accused persons stopped their car in front of the victim’s car, an argument started. However, the accused persons got into car of the victim and took him away along with his car and kidnapped him,” said a senior police officer.

Police said that while Nithish was arguing with the accused, he was talking to one of his friend over the mobile phone who overheard the argument between the victim and the criminals. Accused persons took away the phone of the young businessman but the friend who had overheard the conversation, alerted the relatives of the victim who in turn informed the police. Police tracked the location of the victim’s car and reached the spot where the accused were changing a flat tyre of the car. The victim had been gagged and transferred to the boot of his car. The relatives of the victim also reached the spot and identified the car from a distance, the DCP said.