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Kidnapped boy released

Staff Reporter

Two persons arrested in case

- PHOTO: P.V. Sivakumar

In safe custody: Ch. Vamsikrishna with his father after being freed by the abductors in Hyderabad on Wednesday.

HYDERABAD: A day after securing the safe release of an abducted employee of Satyam Computers, the city police on Wednesday tasted similar success when they forced abductors of an eight-year-old boy, Ch. Vamsikrishna, to set him free by continuously stalking them.

They, however, could not zero in on any of the boy’s kidnappers but managed to arrest two persons in the first case. Son of a businessman, the boy was returning to his house in Mailargadda of Chilkalguda on foot from tuition classes around 8.30 p.m. on Tuesday when two motorcycle-borne persons took him away.

Secret

Though the second kidnap was reported within hours of the employee V.Satyanarayana’s abduction, the police kept it a closely guarded secret fearing threat to the boy’s life.

As the boy failed to turn up till 10.30 p.m., his parents started searching for him when anonymous persons rang up his father, Venkataramana, a cloth store owner, demanding Rs. 8 lakhs as ransom to free the boy.

Attempts to track the abductors by analysing phone call data failed as the abductors cleverly began calling up only from landline phones.

They threatened to kill the boy if the parents approached the police.

Pursuit by police

The businessman prepared to pay the ransom and left for Uppal as directed by the kidnappers even as special police teams followed him secretly in the early hours of Wednesday.

From Uppal, the abductors went on changing the ‘places of ransom payment’ for the next five hours from L.B. Nagar to Dilsukhnagar, Kothapet and Ramanthapur apparently having noticed the police parties following the boy’s father. From L.B. Nagar, they instructed the boy’s father to travel on a scooter instead of a four-wheeler suspecting that policemen might hide in the vehicle and attack them.

Special party

Police higher-ups posted a special party at every location where the abductors had asked the boy’s father to come and made them lay in wait even as the meeting points were frequently changed by the offenders.

With little chances of collecting the ransom amount hoodwinking the police teams, the abductors finally abandoned the boy at Habsiguda around 10 a.m.

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