14-year-old boy rescued from bed box, four held in Amritsar

Tribune News Service

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Amritsar, August 25

The police have rescued a 14-year-old boy from a bed box and nabbed four kidnappers and on Wednesday.

The victim has been identified Pintu (14), a resident of New Preet Nagar.

The accused have been identified as Raj Kumar alias Chotu (22), Amit (21), Suraj (20) and Krishna (19), all natives of Bihar who resided at Gali Kullu Mill Wali on Batala road.

Kailash Chaudhary, elder brother of the victim, said he sells vegetable near Union Bank situated on Batala road.

He said on August 23, Pintu had left to join him at his shop on a bicycle around 6 pm, but failed to reach the destination. Kailash and his relatives searched for Pintu the entire night.

Kailash told the Mohkampura police that he got a call on August 24 at 9 am and the caller asked to pay Rs 3 lakh as ransom to release his brother.

Commissioner of Police Vikramjeet Duggal said they received a complaint around 11 am and constituted separate teams to track the miscreants. He said footage of CCTV cameras and analysing dump data of mobile calls proved helpful in tracing the boy.

Duggal said all the accused were from the same locality and they hatched a conspiracy to kidnap a child of a well-off family. He said they took an accommodation on a rent and got a large bed with box (diwan) to hide the child.

He said cops traced Pintu and recovered him from the bed box. A country-made pistol was also seized from the possession of the accused.

Pintu said three-motorcycle borne men intercepted him near his house and asked him to go along with them. When I refused, the kidnappers put a rope around my neck and took me forcefully, he said and added that they hid him in the bed box.