In a belated breakthrough, Udham Singh Nagar police arrested three out of the eight accused of the case of abduction involving a Sitarganj-based trader Ravish Garg and that too after the trader was released at Sisikhera after his relatives had paid Rs 15 lakh as ransom.
Notably, the trader had been allegedly abducted while he had been coming back home after shutting down his cement and construction material shop at Sisauna Bazaar on May 19.
Police said that the abductors had sought extortion of Rs 2 crores from the traders’ relatives over phone.
However, the deal had been finally fixed at Rs 15 lakh after much persuasion, a police officer said.
While the process of having the trader released was on the police on their part remained busy to track the abductors down. Finally, three of them were arrested, though five others of the gang are still at large.
The trio has been identified as Buta Singh, resident of Saroya, Sitarganj, Ravindra Singh alias Ravi, native of Amriya, Peelibhit (Uttar Pradesh) and Charanjeet Singh, resident of Sitarganj. Police also recovered Rs 2.25 lakh out of extorted money from the possession of the three alleged abductors.
Besides, seven mobile phones, two bikes, two pistols, two cartridges and some other weapons presumably used in the abduction were recovered from the arrested trio. They were later sent to jail after being produced in the court, Udham Singh Nagra circle officer Swatantra Kumar.