CHANDIGARH: The UT police on Thursday claimed to have arrested four detained of kidnapping a 15-year-old boy to get a ransom of Rs 50 lakh.
Their fifth accomplice will be all on the run.
Ankit was kidnapped near Manimajra railroad crossing on the afternoon of June 15.
UT SSP Kuldeep Singh Chahal stated,”The detained are Pankaj Gupta, 28, his brother Vishal, 24, citizens of Kishangarh village, Rajat, 21, and Mukesh Kumar, 24, both Ram Darbar.
Their aide, Ajay Sharma, is large.
Pankaj, Vishal and Mukesh are restoration agents using a bank” Pankaj and Vishal understood the boy’s family since they are acquaintances.
“Individuals were facing financial difficulties as a result of lockdown, were hooked to internet games such as PUBG and Free Fire and finding it hard to repay .
Pankaj had spent money in online strategies and endured losses,” that the SSP added.
The mastermind of the kidnapping has been Pankaj, that, together with others, had resisted the program.
After Ankit was close Manimajra railroad crossing, Ajay, Mukesh and Rajat realized there at a white Maruti Brezza automobile posture bogus Haryana registration number and hauled in at gunpoint.
With Ankit’s phone, they left a call on his loved ones, requiring Rs 50 lakh to launch him.
After committing the offense, they all flashed the initial number plate on your vehicle.
Meanwhile, Pankaj and Vishal faked to assist Ankit’s household in distributing him.
They followed his daddy, Churamani, into the police station as well as spoke to the kidnappers and informed them that they had been organizing the ransom amount.
Simultaneouslythey had been apprising his or her accomplices of their goings-on.
When authorities intensified their attempts, they got frightened and returned following reliving Ankit in Baltana, Zirakpur, the SSP said.
The boy has been recovered unharmed.
After documenting the statements Ankit along with his dad, Manimara authorities had registered a case.
Through investigation, the authorities resisted the offense scene and inspected the footage of CCTVs at Baltana and Panchkula.
They zeroed in on a Brezza automobile and tracked its proprietor to Panchkula.
The vehicle operator, Rohit Sharma, told the cops his brother Ajay, that dwelt in Baltana, had been with the car.
Police subsequently made the very first arrest of Mukesh, who disclosed that the titles of other detained.
Cops said,”Pankaj and Vishal were quite near the boy’s household.
They understood that Churamani’s daughter was getting married in October.
Believing he had sufficient money and gold jewelry, they moved forward with their strategy.” The four were created before a local court which delivered them at four-day police remand.
“They’ll be contested Ajay along with also the pistol and the knife was used to kidnap the boy,” said a freak.