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Jeweller’s son rescued

JAIPUR: Exactly a week after his abduction from outside the gates of his house in the Mahavir Nagar locality of Jaipur, the police recovered school boy Mihir Jain on Friday. The boy, son of city jeweller Rajesh Jain, was traced unharmed from an empty house on the outskirts of the city near the Jaipur-Delhi express highway.

The police authorities restored a bitterly weeping child, a student of Class VI, still in the uniform he had worn for school, to his family. The boy, who was whisked away by his abductors in a white car last week as soon as he was dropped back from school outside his house, had remained untraceable since. His abductors had made their ransom call to the child’s father on January 14 demanding payment of Rs.1 crore.

The otherwise chirpy youngster, a student of the uptown Neerja Modi Public School in Mansarovar locality of Jaipur, surely missed the kite flying festival Makar Sankranti this time, but was back home safe.

The police have arrested three persons in this connection while the total number of those involved is believed to be five. Those arrested have been identified as Raj Kishore and Sagar Singh of Ajmer and Virendra Singh of Bharatpur. One of them is said to be a debt recovery agent and the other a property dealer. None of them is seemingly a professional criminal.

The sensational abduction story had a happy ending as those who live in the neighbourhood of the rented house where the boy was kept after abduction informed the Shipra Path police station about his presence. Briefing journalists, A. K. Jain, Additional Director General of Police (Crime), denied payment of any ransom for his release.

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