Chhattisgarh Police on Tuesday arrested two persons including a former tenant for abducting his landlord’s son for a ransom of Rs 1 crore here. Three others are on the run.
Raipur Additional Superintendent of Police Abhishek Maheshwari told The Pioneer that Ankit Mishra and Raj Tomar, both from Madhya Pradesh, have been taken into custody.
Twari lives in Amleshwar village and Tomar in Kamal Vihar. They abducted Siddharth Ashatkar on June 2 night from Sunder Nagar. The boy was released in Dashrangpur village in Kabirdham district after police stepped up patrol for the missing boy. The police zeroed in on Tiwari and detained him. He named his four accomplices including Tomar. The two told the police that they decided to abduct Ashatkar following the construction of a palatial house by his father.