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Girl rescued, relative held

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: A person whose brother-in-law had tried to help him in getting a job and also take care of his pregnant wife allegedly kidnapped his daughter in a bid to extort Rs. 2 lakh as ransom. The North-East Delhi police have managed to rescue the three-year-old girl and arrested the accused.

According to the police, Rajender Kumar, a resident of Welcome Colony in North-East Delhi, had lodged a complaint with the police on Friday night saying that his daughter, Khushi, had gone missing.

He told the police that he, along with his wife and the wife of his brother-in-law, Ram Shanker, had gone to a doctor and when they returned, the girl was nowhere to be seen.

While the police launched a hunt for Khushi, Mr. Kumar received a ransom call on his mobile phone. With the help of technical surveillance the call was traced to a mobile phone that was being used at Gajraula in Uttar Pradesh. Around 3 a.m. the police managed to trap Ram Shanker at the UP Roadways bus stand in Gajraula and rescued Khushi.

Investigations revealed that Mr. Kumar ran a small dairy and had a decent income. Ram Shanker, who ran a medicine shop at his village in Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh, had been facing a financial crisis. His situation worsened when his wife got pregnant. Ram then told Mr. Kumar about the finance crunch. Mr. Kumar asked Ram to come to Delhi where he could take up the job of a driver. He also offered to take care of his pregnant wife.

Ram and his wife came to Delhi about a fortnight ago and were putting up at Mr. Kumar's house. On Friday, Mr. Kumar and his wife had taken Ram's wife to see a doctor.

Ram, apparently lured by the possibility of a handsome ransom amount, apparently decided to kidnap Mr. Kumar's daughter.

He took a UP Roadways bus and, on the way, borrowed the mobile phone of the bus conductor on the pretext of making an urgent call and then used it to make the ransom call.

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