UP: Man kidnapped by friends for 2 crores ransom, killed and cremated in PPE kit; five arrested
Agra, June 29: A businessman's son was allegedly kidnapped for ransom of Rs 2 crore by his friends, who killed him and cremated the body in a PPE kit, police said, adding five men have arrested in the case.
The arrested accused have been identified as Happy Khanna, Sumit Aswani, Manoj Bansal, Rinku and Harsh Chauhan.
The victim, Sachin, a resident of the Dayalbagh locality, was the son of SS Chauhan who owns a cold store.
He disappeared on June 21 when Aswani and others asked him to join a booze party near the water plant of the area, Bhupendra Singh, Incharge at New Agra police station, said, adding a missing complaint was lodged on June 22.
Sachin Chauhan was asphyxiated using a lamination paper and cremated at the Balkeshwar Ghat on the day of abduction, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Muniraj G said.
The accused used a fake name to perform his last rites and wrapped him in a PPE kit to hide his identity and to show that he died of Covid, the officer said.
The plot to kidnap was mapped out by Harsh, son of SS Chauhan's business partner, police said, adding he wasn't at the spot himself.
Harsh had promised everyone their share and was going to keep Rs 1 crore himself, they said.
Acting on tip-offs, a joint team of Special Task Force (STF) and Agra police on Sunday nabbed Happy Khanna.
Khanna told police that he, along with Aswani, Bansal, and Rinku, kidnaped Sachin on June 21 and later killed him.
After his interrogation, Aswani and Bansal were arrested from Dayalbagh and Sadar Bazar localities respectively and the car used in the crime was seized.
Aswani said that the victim owed him Rs 40 lakh so he decided to kidnap him in order to get his money back.
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'Rear-guard action': BJP over Mamata accepting sports minister's resignation after Messi event
New Delhi (PTI): The BJP on Tuesday alleged that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's accepting Aroop Biswas' resignation as the state sports minister is nothing but a "rear-guard action" to douse public anger over the mismanagement of football icon Lionel Messi's event last week.
BJP co-in-charge for West Bengal Amit Malviya alleged that this is also an "open confession" that the Messi event fiasco was not accidental but a government-manufactured disaster, borne out of the poor governance of Banerjee, her ministers and the state bureaucracy.
Banerjee on Tuesday accepted Biswas' resignation as the sports minister in the wake of the controversy over the mismanagement of football icon Messi's event last week, a senior leader of the ruling TMC said.
Biswas, who had written to the chief minister seeking to be relieved of his responsibilities as sports minister, will continue as a cabinet minister, retaining charge of the power department.
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Reacting to the development, Malviya said in a post on X, "TMC Sports Minister Aroop Biswas resigns after the Messi fiasco and Mamata Banerjee accepts it in record time."
"Do not mistake this for accountability; this is nothing but a rear-guard action to douse public anger. anger! This is not 'Raj Dharma'," he added.
The BJP leader alleged that the incident was the outcome of "loot" of common people which is "so synonymous" with the TMC.
The incident was also the outcome of the "shameless VIP culture that TMC thrives on and deep-rooted cronyism promoted by Banerjee," he charged.
Malviya further alleged that Biswas' resignation exposes a "collective failure of Mamata Banerjee, her partisan bureaucracy, and her crony cabinet".
"This is a symbolic sacrifice, a political hoax, soon to be buried under layers of bureaucracy, with no justice, no accountability, and no remorse," the BJP leader said, adding, "No resignation will bring back the time lost, the money wasted, or the stolen chance for football lovers to witness Messi in Kolkata."
