Sleuths of Special Task Force (STF) claimed to have rescued two jewellers from Agra on Tuesday night, who were kidnapped from Jhansi about a fortnight back. However, none of the kidnappers could be arrested. Interestingly, the STF also admitted that the gang was demanding a ransom of Rs 25 crore from the victims’ families.
SSP STF, Amit Pathak said that sleuths had been working on the kidnapping case and trying to locate the place where they were being held captive. After confirming their location, a STF team raided Woodland Apartment (room no-404) in Sikendra area of Agra and rescued the kidnapped jewellers. The kidnappers however managed to escape but an Innova (Dl8C-AK-2598) and mobile phones were recovered.
Pathak claimed that the kidnapping was masterminded by terminated police constable Vinod Chaudhary and it was executed with assiatnce from Jitendra Chaudhary and lokendra Chaudhary of Madawar area of Hathras.
The SSP said that the abductors were demanding a ransom of Rs 25 crore from the family of the two victims but they were rescued before the transaction took place and efforts were now being made to arrest the accused.
On July 12, jeweller Rajendra Kumar Agarwal aka Raju Kamriya of Daru Bhandela area of Kotwali (Jhansi) and his friend Rahul Agarwal went to play badminton at a bungalow near Mission Gate and while they were returning home, they were kidnapped. After initially searching on their own, the concerned family members contacted the police with all five phones being carried by the victims were switched off.
The Scooty (UP93Al-4828) the victims were riding was found lying abandoned in front of Agarwal Steels Showroom along with footwear of Raju. A guard of the steel showroom revealed that he saw some miscreants on a four-wheeler had pushed the two Scooty riders and sped off.