The Gautam Budh Nagar Police has arrested Sunder Chaudhary who was involved in kidnapping of a seven-year-old boy on Tuesday from his residence in Barondi Village in Greater Noida.
On his instances, police has conducted raids and rescued the victim, Dhruv Mavi, and arrested Bimlesh, wife of Mahesh, who is owner of the house where Dhruv was found, from Bulandshar district.
Police said that the kidnappers had demanded ransom of Rs50 lakh from the victim’s father and had threatened to kill the boy if they approached police.
On May 3, a couple, Bacchu and Hemlata, with a six-month-old baby approached Manoj Mavi, victim’s father and owner of Dharamraj Hospital, and said to provide them shelter as they have no place to live. On investigating by the Manoj, Bacchu said that he works with a construction company in Greater Noida. Two days later, Bacchu also brought an eight-year-old child saying that the he is his nephew and his parents had died in a road accident a few days ago. On Tuesday evening, when Dhruv was playing with the so-called children of the kidnappers, he was abducted and after a brief search it was found that Bacchu and Hemlata had also fled from their flat.
According to police, a ransom call was received on the cell phone of Shyam Sunder Mavi, Dhruv’s uncle, on Wednesday morning in which the kidnappers demanded ransom of Rs 50 lakh and told to wait for their next call. Shyam Sunder, an advocate by profession, approached police immediately. Considering the seriousness of the case, several police teams were made and raids were conducted at various hideouts of Greater Noida and neighbouring districts.
On Thursday, a tip-off was received that the mastermind of the case Sunder Chaudhary, a resident of Bulandshahr, would come to the Greater Noida. Around 11 am, the kidnapper was apprehended from Pari Chowk with the help of police surveillance.
During interrogation, Sunder accepted that they run a gang of kidnappers. “We have been interrogating the arrested abductor so we could get details about the gang and its members. We have been tracing the absconded accused Mahendra, Mahesh, Bacchu and Hemlata so we could solve the kidnapping case. We are also trying to know about the two boys, who were brought by the couple during their stay at Dharamraj Hospital,” said Brijesh Kumar Singh, Superintendent of Police (Rural), Greater Noida.