The ongoing interrogation of the abductors of Khandwa businessman Rajesh Jain, who was rescued from the captive of accused from a flat in Faridabad two days back, has revealed involvement of three more persons including a local guy Pankaj Kharat who worked as a felicitator for the kidnappers in Indore. On being interrogated by the police, the accused have revealed the names of three persons including a local guy Pankaj Kharat and Aditya Tiwari, a Varanasi-based accused. On a tip-off, city police arrested Pankaj Kharat last night to find out further details and conspiracy angle in Rajesh Jain kidnapping case, informed Indore range IG Vipin Maheshwari while talking to media persons here on Friday.
As told by Kharat, the kidnappers after abducting the victim had stayed in his flat at Silicon City for two days before proceeding for Faridabad. Pankaj had taken the flat in Silicon City on rent only three-four months back, IG said adding that the police following a thorough search of the flat, recovered a bottle carrying liquid and some other material which are being verified. IG suspected that liquor recovered from the bottle might have been used by the kidnappers to drug the victim so as to make him unconscious. “We are clinically verifying the liquid before arriving at any conclusion,” Maheshwari said adding that the accused during their interrogations have also revealed names of two other persons --- namely one Solanki and Aditya Tiwari, a Varanasi-based goon who reportedly provided vehicle to the accused for kidnapping the accused.
Talking about Pankaj Kharat, who lives in Annapurna locality, the IG said Pankaj sometime back had killed his grand mother over a property dispute. He met Sudhir Bhadoria, the main accused in the case, during his stay in jail in connection with murder of his grand mother, IG said adding that Bhadoria after getting out of the jail, had taken help of Pankaj and stayed in his row house flat at Silicon City. Bhadoria along with his accomplices after kidnapping the victim Rajesh Jain from Vijay Nagar locality of the city, had stayed in the row house of Pankaj Kharat at Silicon City along with Rajesh Jain for two days before leaving for Faridabad, police said adding that they were also trying to find details of other two accused including one Solanki and Aditya Tiwari.
Rajesh Jain, a 45-year-old Khandwa-based businessman had been kidnapped from Indore on August 24. After four-days of intensive searches and mobile tracking, the victim was rescued from a flat in Faridabad, where he had been held captive by the accused. While rescuing the victim, the joint police teams from Madhya Pradesh, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh also arrested four accused from the flat namely Sunil Bhadouria, Mohd Inam alias Haji, Omkar Singh and Pradeep and recovered and an AK-56 rifle, six pistols, five hand-grenades and a haul of live cartridges from their possession, the IG said.