Five booked on kidnapping charge, seeking Rs3-lakh ransom

Tribune News Service

Mohali, January 17

The police have registered a case against five persons for allegedly kidnapping the owner of a mobile shop in Phase 1 here and seeking a ransom of Rs3 lakh for bailing him out of a fake gambling case.

Complaint Sanam Garg, owner of Garg Telecommunications in Phase 1, in his statement to the police, said three unidentified men, two in police uniform and one in civil clothes, approached him on the evening of January 15 and guided him to an SUV parked nearby.

Two persons waiting in the SUV took him to Sector 76 and told him that he has been booked for gambling. However, if he paid them Rs3 lakh, he could go scot-free.

The complainant asked his brother to bring Rs3 lakh. On seeing some persons with Garg’s brother, the suspects tried to flee from the spot. However, Garg managed to jump out of the moving car.

On Saturday, the police registered a case against the suspects under Sections 364 and 34 of the IPC at the Phase 1 police station.