With the arrest of brother, sister and their mother, the Delhi Police on Monday claimed to have solved a kidnapping for ransom case of a three-year-old boy within six hours in national Capital’s Bawana area.
The accused claimed that they followed a modus operandi which they saw in an episode of a crime serial on television.
The siblings were identified as, Dhruv (18) year and Meenakshi (21) (name changed) and their 40-year-old mother, Kamla (Name Changed), all resident of Daryapur Kalan, Delhi.
According to Gaurav Sharma, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Outer-North district, on Sunday about 1 pm, complainant reported about missing of his three year old son from his house since 11.50 am.
“During investigation, about 5.30 pm, while examining the CCTV footage of a camera, a suspicious movement of a commercial TATA Ace vehicle was observed. It was revealed that, Dhruv owns the vehicle and reside on rent in the colony but was shifting to a new address and on the day of incident the victim child and other two children were offered Frooti by Dhruv,” said the DCP.
“It was found that Dhruv had made several calls to the complainant but
complainant could not identify the number, as he was not much acquainted with him. Later, victim’s pictures were also there in Dhruv’s phone and three audio recordings were also there in the phone, in which, he was demanding Rs 75 Lakhs ransom from the family members for the safe release of the kidnapped child,” said the DCP.