The arrested person has been identified as Saqib Jumma Khan (25), who is a resident of Jaipur.
The Anti-Extortion Cell of city crime branch has arrested a man for his alleged involvement in the sensational kidnap of a businessman. The city businessman was induced to visit Rajasthan for a business proposition and kidnapped there. He was freed only after the family paid a ransom of Rs10 lakh to the kidnappers. The businessman then lodged a complaint at VP Road.
The arrested person has been identified as Saqib Jumma Khan (25), who is a resident of Jaipur.
According to police sources, the complainant is into import-export of copper in partnership with his brother. The victim had registered his company details, including his mobile phone number and office landline number, on a business website, through which he used to get business calls.
In October 2015, he received a call from one Rahul Jain alias Sunil, who claimed that a Mathura-based company has around 30 to 40 tonnes of copper for sale. The victim was shown photographs of the goods through WhatsApp, which he liked. He then thought to personally inspect the goods and, hence, flew to Delhi on November 24. There he contacted Rahul, who sent a car to pick him up. The car headed towards Mathura.
After over three hours, a group of six people stopped the vehicle on the highway. They dragged the victim out, snatched his mobile phone, chain, watch, wallet, cash and credit card. Threatening him with rifles and revolvers, they then told him that they were kidnapping him and wanted Rs10 lakh for his release.
He was asked to coordinate with his brother to arrange for the money without alerting him. They took him to a house on a farm and kept him there.
The next day the accused sent a mobile phone number and a bank account number on the complainant's phone and told him to send the same to his brother and deposit the money in the account. The victim's brother finally delivered the cash through angadia (money transfer) to Khan in Jaipur.
On having received the money, the accused gave the complainant Rs10,000 and left him in Bharatpur from where he came to Delhi airport. From there, he called his wife and narrated his ordeal and got his credit card blocked. His relatives then went to Delhi and brought him back, the police said.
The complainant later learnt that on the day of his kidnapping five transactions totalling Rs90,000 had taken place through his credit card. On November 28, he lodged a complaint with the VP Road police.
"Inquiry revealed the account number and mobile phone number sent by the complainant to his brother was of Khan. Khan was traced with the help of local police at Mahatma Phule Chowk in Jaipur on December 8 and nabbed. We are on the lookout for the others involved," said a crime branch officer.
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