With the arrest of four persons, including the alleged victim, Gurgaon Police on Tuesday cracked a kidnapping case within 24 hours. Pawan, son of a BSNl employee, had hatched a plan to fake his own kidnapping in order to extort Rs5 lakh from his father so he could return the money he had borrowed from the market.
Police said the incident took place in Sector 10 of Gurgaon. Devki Nandan, a BSNl lineman, lodged a complaint with police on Sunday evening about his son’s disappearance. He told police that he had received a ransom call for Rs5 lakh. He said he last saw Pawan going to work in Kapashera, Delhi. A team of police constituted could not trace the location of the abductors initially as they kept changing their location and number while making ransom calls to Nandan. “While investigating, police arrested two accused — Sudhir and lokesh — from a railway station. After sustained interrogation, both broke down and revealed that Pawan was the mastermind. later, police arrested Pawan and a Bhagwan Dass,” said Vivek Kumar, DCP (Crime), Gurgaon.
Police have registered a case of kidnapping and forgery against the accused persons at Sector 10 Police Station.