The police on Monday traced a 15-year-old boy of Krisha Nagar who was reportedly kidnapped by an unknown gang, in the morning, as he was going to school from his residence at Krishna Nagar.
The kidnappers are said to have demanded a ransom f Rs.30 lakh from the parent of the boy, a class 10 student in a private school.
Harish Chander is the second child of Mohankrishnan, school teacher and Kalpana, a nurse in JIPMER. As the parents have an estranged relationship, the boy was living with his mother.
According to a complaint lodged with the Lawspet police by his mother, the boy usually used to go to school by auto. He began using the bicycle only this year.
As usual the boy had left for school on his cycle at around 7.40 am. By 8 a.m an unknown person called up Kalpana, his mother, and claimed that her son had been kidnapped and demanded ransom of Rs. 30 lakh. The call was disconnected immediately.
Panicking, Kalpana immediately informed her relatives and later lodged a police complaint.
When a police team, and pressmen, converged at the boy’s house, the kidnappers called the mother again. This time they demanded an upfront payment of Rs.5 lakh. They also threatened that unless their demand was met, they would abduct the other son who was studying in an engineering college in Thanjavur.
She pleaded with them to release her son as she did not have that much of money.
One of the callers ordered her to ask the police and presspersons gathered at her residence to be sent away.
The police mounted a surveillance of the calls being made to the mother’s cellphone. The initial hunch was that the boy was abducted on a four wheeler and that the kidnappers were near by in the suburban areas.
On mapping the location of the mobile towers with the help of signals, the police sealed the potential whereabouts of the gang.
Fearing that the police were closing in on them, the culprits abandoned the boy near Kiliyannur on the Tindivanam road.
“We’re on the look out for the culprits based on the information given by the boy,” said Bhairavasamy, SP (South) told The Hindu .
