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Friday, Jan 20, 2006

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Delhi trader rescued from Andhra Pradesh

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: A Delhi-based trader allegedly kept in confinement for the past one month by a fruit-sales commission agent at Kudappa in Andhra Pradesh has been rescued by the Inter-State Cell of the Crime Branch.

The accused had been demanding Rs. 10 lakhs for the victim's release.

According to the police, Devender Kashyap, son of Bhudev Kashyap (47), had recently moved a habeas corpus in the Delhi High Court alleging that his father had gone missing in Andhra Pradesh. The court directed the Crime Branch to probe the matter.

The business partners of Mr. Kashyap, who ran a fruit trading company at Azadpur Mandi in North Delhi, told the police that he had reached Andhra Pradesh on December 2, via Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat. Mr. Kashyap had gone there to buy musk melons for sale in the Capital.

Investigations revealed that a fruit-sales commission agent, Shreenu Vaslu, had kept Mr. Kashyap in confinement at his Paranapalli village residence in Kadappa. Subsequently, a police team under the supervision of Inspector Subhash Tandon raided the place and found the trader locked inside a room.

Mr. Kashyap revealed that as he had been buying fruits from the farmers directly and was not paying any commission to Shreenu, at which he planned to abduct him.

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