Ferozabad once again rocked with a sensational kidnapping when one another leading glass merchant of the State, Sanjeev Gupta was abducted by unknown miscreants and a ransom of Rs 100 crore has been demanded from his family members on mobile. The car of the trader was found abandoned a day after his kidnapping. Now senior officers along with four separate teams of the Special Task Force have been formed to crack the case and rescue the trader safely. Surprisingly, the family members also lodged a report naming three persons in their First Information Report (FIR) suspecting their involvement. Just over a month back, another leading glass merchant, Sanjay Mittal was kidnapped for ransom but luckily, the local police rescued him within few hours of kidnapping.
Reports said that Sanjeev Gupta, a leading glass merchant of the State took lunch in Sagar Resturant in Tundla locality of Ferozabad on last Saturday and left for his residence at Archit Green Plaza in Katool area of Tundla. However, he not reached home and went missing. The family members launched a hunt but failed. late on Saturday night, the family members received two messages as well as same number of SMS from Sanjeev’s mobile through which the kidnappers claimed that if they wanted Sanjeev alive, than they must prepare a ransom of Rs 100 crore. Subsequently, on Sundaymorning, Sanjeev’s kin Vikalp Gupta, reported the matter to the senior police officers. On Sunday night, another SMS and Whatsapp message came from Sanjeev’s mobile through which the kidnappers asked the family members to reach Agra with the money they managed to arrange so far. The kidnappers also warned that if they tried to play smart by informing police then Sanjeev’s life would be at risk.
ADG (law and order) Anand Kumar, claimed that they had already asked the sleuths of the Special Task Force (STF) to help the local police in tracing out the kidnappers and rescue the victim from their clutches. SSP Ferozabad, Ajay Kumar, claimed that the family members also lodged a named report suspecting the hands of Geeta Pandey, her husband Pradeep Pandey and one Ankit Gupta, all natives of Suhagnagar area of Dakshin police station in Ferojabad. He said that they were already looking into all the aspects to close down on the kidnappers. Kumar confirmed that that car (UP83AC-4100), on which Sanjeev left the hotel on the fateful day was also found to be abandoned by the kidnappers near Toll Plaza on Bulundsahar Road under Ghabounwa locality of Aligarh police station. Further investigations are on in the matter.
It may be recalled that just in May last, another leading glass merchant of the State, Sanjay Mittal, owning three biggest glass factories in the State was kidnapped from National highway in Nagla locality under Dakshin police station of Ferojabad. luckily, as the kidnappers were going to huddle the businessmen in another vehicle, the cops traced their location and managed to rescue the victim safely. Interestingly, both the merchants are said to be very close to a senior cabinet minister in the Narendra Modi government and the leader already talked to senior officers directing to rescue the businessman at earliest.