A 16-year-old boy has been apprehended for allegedly kidnapping the four-year-old son of his former employer for ransom in Khyala here, taking inspiration from a Hindi movie. The victim has been rescued.
Subhash, a resident of Khyala, made a call to the Police Control Room on Thursday around 10-30 p.m. saying that his son had been kidnapped and that he had received a ransom call for Rs.1 lakh. Taking up investigation, a team under the supervision of Station House Officer (Khyala) Inspector R.K. Ojha mounted technical surveillance and found that the call was made from Khyala.
A few minutes later, the kidnapper again called up the victim's father directing him to come near Kali Mata Mandir with the ransom. Police personnel in plainclothes cordoned off the area and after 30 minutes the victim's father again received a call asking him to leave the bag and go. The police team noticed a suspicious looking teenager hiding behind a car and detained him. The victim, who was with him, was rescued.
During interrogation, the accused purportedly told the police that he was in need of money to construct a house at his native village in Bihar and planned to kidnap the son of Subhash at whose shop he had earlier worked. He got the idea to kidnap the child from Hindi film, “ Chor Machaye Shor ”, in which the protagonist kidnaps a girl and seeks Rs.1 crore in ransom, the police said.
