The police on Thursday successfully rescued 14-year-old boy from Kurawar in Rajgarh district who was abducted from Baria village on May 2 and arrested four youths were nabbed on the charge of kidnapping and demanding a ransom of Rs 1 crore.
While speaking with the media persons on Thursday, IG Bhopal Yogesh Choudhary said that the police in the initial investigation of the kidnapping case of 14-year-old Mohit Meena, it was found two youths of the area were suspicious and later when they were detained and grilled, they accepted to have abducted the boy.
The two were identified as Arun Meena and Raja Sallam who confessed that the plan to kidnap Mohit was hatched in December, 2015. They confessed that Rahul lodhi and Malkhan Meena are accomplices in the kidnapping.
The master mind in the kidnapping, Arun Meena is first year student of Management and was pursing his degree from Bhopal School of Social Sciences (BSSS).
Arun wanted to make big and fast money and while planning he narrowed down on Mohit Meena who belonged to a well to do family. He wanted to settle abroad with the ransom but failed after police nabbed him.
The accused messaged victim’s family from an unknown number which was used to trace the location of the accused in the investigation.
For keeping Mohit captive Malkhan took a room on rent in Kurawar and provided rent in advance to the house owner while Rahul stole a motorbike parked in front of Peoples Mall and the registration number plate of motorbike was replaced by a fake registration number plate.
On May 2 Rahul told the victim that his father’s machine at the farms faced technical fault and accompanied him on the stolen motorbike and along with Malkhan victim was kidnapped. Rahul and Malkhan used to work at Peoples Mall while Raja is unemployed.