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Wednesday, Jan 12, 2005

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Arrested for kidnapping uncle's son

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, JAN. 11. Three persons, including a juvenile, have been arrested by the North-West Delhi police for allegedly kidnapping a four-and-a-half-year-old boy from Mongolpuri on Monday. The main accused apparently wanted to set-up a cyber café with the ransom amount.

According to the police, Vimlesh Kumar, an office assistant at Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute living in village Mongolpur Khurd, had lodged a complaint on Monday evening saying that his son, Dheeraj, had gone missing from his house in the evening.

Inquiries revealed that Vimlesh's nephew, 18-year-old Gulshan Kumar, a school dropout, had come to the house and taken Dheeraj out on the pretext of buying him a chocolate. Sometime later, he returned without Dheeraj. When the boy's mother confronted him, Gulshan told her that he was playing outside the house and quickly left the place. But the boy was nowhere to be seen.

Late in the night, Gulshan's father, Pramod Thakur, received a ransom call in which the caller demanded Rs. 5 lakhs for the safe release of the boy. The police questioned Mr. Thakur about the whereabouts of Gulshan and his younger brother, Kamal Kumar. When he could not satisfactorily explain the absence of his sons, the police mounted surveillance at places where the two were likely to be found.

Today, around 11 a.m., a police team noticed Gulshan Kumar and another young man approaching a phone booth in Sultanpuri and apprehended them. They were interrogated at length following which they allegedly confessed to having kidnapped the boy.

At their instance, Dheeraj was rescued from the house of Sheesh Pal, also a resident of Khurd Mongolpur, and he was arrested. Sheesh Pal had told his father that Dheeraj's parents were out of station and that they had asked him to look after him for a couple of days.

The accused told the police that they wanted to open a cyber café but did not have money for the venture. They were aware that Vimlesh had kept huge amount of cash in home as he planned to construct a new house. They hatched the conspiracy on January 7.

Yesterday evening, after coming out of the house along with Dheeraj, Gulshan handed the boy to his brother, Kamal, and went back to Dheeraj's house so that nobody would suspect him. Kamal took the boy to Sheesh Pal's house.

Sheesh Pal, who had been promised a major share of the ransom amount, had known Gulshan for the past year-and-a-half as he used to rent out VCDs to him and the other accused. Efforts are now on to trace Kamal.

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