While no breakthrough was made by cops into the sensational kidnapping of a trader in Ferozabad, the o evade action by some of his business colleagues as he owed them huge amounts.
``We are on the job to trace the whereabouts of Sanjeev Gupta. Tthe probe so far pointed that the victim took several crore rupees of his partners and to avoid paying up, he seems to have orchestrated a kidnapping drama,” revealed a senior officer engaged in the investigation along with sleuths of Special Task Force.
The official claimed that Gupta, who was running a chain of resturants and a glass factory, also had money-related disputes with Pradeep Pandey and Ankit Gupta of Suhagnagar area of Dakshin police station in Ferozabad.
Since these people were pressuring Gupta to pay their money, hence the victim’s kin named them in the FIR lodged on Sunday along with Pandey’s wife Geeta Pandey.
The officer claimed that once they located and recovered Sanjeev Gupta, they would come out with the real story behind the `kidnapping’.
On Saturday, leading businessman Sanjeev Gupta went missing after taking lunch in a local resturant in Tundla locality of Ferozabad. His family launched a hunt but failed and later in thee night, they claimed to have received two messages and SMS from Gupta’s mobile through which the kidnappers reportedly demanded a ransom of Rs 100 crore.
On Sunday night, another SMS and Whatsapp message came from Gupta’s cell phone through which the kidnappers asked the family to reach Agra with the money arranged till then and warned that Gupta’s life would be at risk if they acted smart and informed the police.