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Businessman in car abducted near Delhi airport

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Gang of two gets away with cash, laptop and mobile phone in Cantonment area

NEW DELHI: A 22-year-old businessman was abducted in his Skoda Octavia car by two men in the Delhi Cantonment area and robbed of his mobile phone, laptop and Rs. 13,000 in cash on Tuesday night.

The duo forced the man to withdraw Rs. 10,000 from his ATM account before dumping him near Gyarah Murti in the Capital's high-security diplomatic enclave in the early hours of Wednesday.

Amit Gupta of Gurgaon in Haryana was on his way to the domestic wing of Indira Gandhi International Airport around 11 at night to pick up his father when he was stopped near Sanjay T-point in the Delhi Cantonment area. Two persons walked up to him asking for a matchbox.

As he rolled down the window of the car, the two whipped out firearms and forced their way into the vehicle.

At gunpoint they beat up Amit and threatened him with dire consequences if he raised an alarm.

Then they drove the Skoda around in the South Delhi and South-West Delhi area for about two hours.

Surprisingly, the vehicle was not checked at any of the barricades supposedly erected on the city roads in the run-up to the upcoming Republic Day celebrations.

The carjackers then drove to an ATM centre near IIT Gate and made Amit withdraw Rs. 10,000 from his bank account, after which they dumped him near Gyarah Murti in the Chanakyapuri area.

All this while, Amit's relatives had been trying to contact him over his mobile phone which was switched off.

Soon after his release, Amit reported the matter to the Chanakyapuri police, who referred the case to their Delhi Cantonment counterparts as he had been abducted from there. Subsequently, a case was registered. The police are yet to trace the vehicle.

According to Deputy Commissioner of Police (South-West Delhi) R.S. Yadav, Amit and his father are engaged in electronic items business.

"We are probing the case," he added. Conceding that there had been laxity on the part of the police teams patrolling the city roads during night hours, a senior police officer said in view of threats of a terrorist strike in the Capital more attention should be paid to checking of vehicles, especially those entering the city at night.

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