In a major breakthrough, the Indore police with the help of Uttar Pradesh police on Monday night rescued a boy kidnapped from Khajrna on Saturday from the clutches of the kidnapper and arrested the accused. After securing the release of the victim from Jalon tehsil in UP, the police team accompanied by both the victim and the accused have left for Indore, and are supposed to reach the city by late Tuesday night.
According to SP OP Tripathi, as many as four police teams from the city had been sent to Uttar Prdesh in search of the accused. On the basis of mobile phone location of the accused, city police kept informing about the location of the accused to the UP police.
Subsequently on Monday night they overpowered the accused at around 12 from Konch locality of Jalon tehsil in Uttar Pradesh and secured safe release of the victim Sushil. At the time of arrest, the accused along with the victim was sitting at a bus stand and was supposed to take a bus for Kevlari to reach his sister-in-law's place.
The accused identified as Chander alias Chandrapaul had reportedly abducted a 12-year-old boy Sushil, son of a Rspeti' contractor Kushal Rathore, a resident of Tapeshwari Bagh colony under Khajrna police station on Saturday and after reaching Uttar Pradesh, the accused made a ransom call to the victim's father on Monday afternoon asking him to arrange a ransom of Rs15 lakh if he wanted his son to be safe.
The accused according to SP Tripathi also made the victim talk to his mother. On the basis of information provided by victim's father, city police sent three separate police teams to Kanpur, Jhansi and Gwalior to trace location of the accused and finally overpowered him from a bus stand at Konch under Jalon tehsil last night.
Police said the accused had been living as a tenant at Kushal Rathore for the past 20 years. According to ASP Rajesh Sahay, Chander had been provided rented accommodation at Kushal residence through his neighbor Ramavtaar's brother-in-law. The victim's father said during the course of his stay at his residence, Kushal had got mixed with each and every member of his family, perhaps to win their faith.
Police said the victim Sushil was the youngest of three brothers in the family and enjoyed close bonding with the accused. Meanwhile, police will also likely to probe the role of the person who had enabled the accused to get a rented accommodation at Kushal's residence.