Kidnapped girl rescued from Ghaziabad house

The girl Neha, a resident of Nangloi Extension, was kidnapped on April 30 and kept hostage at the house of the SI in Saidpur village in Haryana. A senior police official said the SI has been identified as Satbir Singh, who was posted with Delhi Armed Force 

NEW DELHI: A teenaged girl from Bangalore, who was allegedly kidnapped and later sold to a youth in Uttarakhand, was rescued following a raid on a house in Ghaziabad, police said on Thursday. A team of Bangalore police led by sub-inspector Manjura Tripathi raided the house yesterday in Garhmukteshwar area and rescued the 16-year-old girl and arrested a youth Arvind, they said.

He had bought the girl for Rs 70,000 from Haldwani in Uttarakhand, they said adding that Arvind claims that he had married the girl. The girl was kidnapped by someone in Bangalore last month following which her father Radhey Shyam had lodged a police complaint on April 19 in Pinia police station there, police said. The arrested youth was produced before a magistrate for transit remand, they said adding that the girl's statement will be recorded in Bangalore and investigations are on.

In another incident, a retired sub-inspector of Delhi Police and two others were arrested on Tuesday night for kidnapping a 21-year-old woman. Neha, a resident of Nangloi Extension, was kidnapped on April 30 and kept hostage at the house of the SI in Saidpur village in Haryana. Police said the SI has been identified as Satbir Singh, who was posted with Delhi Armed Police before his retirement eight years ago. The two others were identified as Ajay and his father Ved Prakash, neighbours of the young woman.

He needed money for treating his ailing mother but landed in police net in Mumbai after allegedly making ransom calls to the parents of a Delhi boy who has ran away from home.

Meanwhile, Ranjit Kumar Gautam (24) was arrested by a Delhi Police team at Mumbai's Gateway of Indiarecently following investigations into a complaint filed by the father of a Delhi boy who had received ransom calls for Rs 5 lakh on April 21. The boy, who was working in a restaurant in Mumbai, did not know that Gautam was calling his family and demanding ransom. The boy's family live in east Delhi's Gandhi Nagar. Gautam, it is learnt, was desperately in need of money for treatment of his ailing mother.

"Gautam met the boy at New Delhi railway station when he was going to Mumbai in search of a job as he urgently needed money for the treatment of his ailing mother suffering from cancer," O P Mishra, Deputy Commissioner of Police (East), said.

"He came to know that the boy has left his house and did not want to go back. They reached Mumbai on March 26 and Gautam told the boy not to talk to his parents as they will look for him. Ranjan started working at a restaurant as a waiter. When Gautam found that the boy is settled and was not willing to contact his family, he hatched a plan to extort money from his family. He had the mobile number of the family, he started making ransom calls," Mishra said.

However, the official said, what undid Gautam was the use of friend's account number to get the ransom amount credited. The boy's father had received calls on April 21 that his child was under his custody in Mumbai and demanded Rs 5 lakh for his release. However, the kidnapper later settled for Rs 2 lakh.

"The father reached Mumbai but the caller kept changing locations for delivery of ransom. When the father insisted to first let him speak to his son, the caller used to be always evasive. "Finally the caller told the father to deposit money in a bank account. Police found that this account belonged to one Rakesh Bhandari who told us that he had met one Gautam a month ago who requested to arrange a job for him," he said.

Bhandari and Gautam became friends later and on April 25, he tool his account number on the pretext of that his family wanted to sent him some money. "We made the father deposit Rs 10,000 in Bhandari's account. Bhandari then told Gautam that he had received Rs 10,000. Gautam came to collect the money at Gateway of India where he was arrested," Mishra said.

In the third incident, a retired Sub-Inspector (SI) of the Delhi Police and two others were arrested on Tuesday night in case of kidnapping of a 21-year-old girl. The girl Neha, a resident of Nangloi Extension, was kidnapped on April 30 and kept hostage at the house of the SI in Saidpur village in Haryana. A senior police official said the SI has been identified as Satbir Singh, who was posted with Delhi Armed Police before his retirement eight years ago. The two others were identified as Ajay and his father Ved Prakash, neighbours of the girl.

"On April 30, Ajay allegedly kidnapped Neha while she was on her way to home from market. He then took her to Sonepat in Haryana. Satbir, who is friend of Ved Prakash, then advised them to keep the girl at his place in Saidpur village. In the meantime, the girl's family started searching for her in the neighbourhood and at their relatives' places. When their search didn't yield anything, her father Satnarayan approached the police on May 2 and lodged a complaint that his daughter was missing. A case of kidnapping was registered at Nangloi police station," said the police official. In her statement to the police, Neha said that Ajay had been stalking her for a year but she had always rejected his advances. "All the three accused have been sent to 14 days judicial custody," the police official added.

He needed money for treating his ailing mother but landed in police net in Mumbai after allegedly making ransom calls to the parents of a Delhi boy who has ran away from home. Ranjit Kumar Gautam (24), a graduate, was arrested by a Delhi Police team from Mumbai's Gateway of India recently following investigations into a complaint filed by the father of the boy who received ransom calls for Rs five lakh on April 21. 

  TOI

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