Author: Times News Network
Publication: The Times of India
Date: January 28, 2003
URL: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/comp/articleshow?artid=35708222
Two-year-old Saurabh, son of a Surat-based
kirana shopkeeper Dinesh Kumar Shah, who was kidnapped from the Mahesh
Nagar area under the Sachin police station of the Surat district of Gujarat
on December 25, was rescued from a village in the Nalanda district on Sunday.
The police have arrested three kidnappers
- Anwar Hussain, Ajjua Alam and Anil Kewat - in this regard.
The police said that the kidnappers
were demanding a sum of Rs 5 lakh from the victim's family members. A team
of Gujarat police had arrived in the state capital after it was detected
that the kidnappers were making telephone calls from Patna.
The Gujarat police also learnt that
the kidnappers had asked Saurabh's parents to send someone with the ransom
money by the Surat-Bhagalpur Express train on January 24.
The abductors had directed the victim's
parents that the person carrying the cash should carry a red handkerchief
as a mark of identification.
Accordingly, the Gujarat police
contacted city SP O N Bhaskar, who assigned the task of laying trap to
the Special Task Force hurriedly constituted by the Patna police.
The force accompanied by the Gujarat
police reached the railway station here at the given time. As the criminals
approached the man carrying the red handkerchief, the police overpowered
and caught hold of the three criminals.
Later, Anwar Hussain confessed that
the boy was held captive at his native village under the Rahui police station
of the Nalanda district. A police party, which was sent to the village
on Sunday, rescued the boy. The minor boy has been sent to Surat along
with the police.
