Three held in Delhi for kidnapping Bengal businessman
New Delhi (PTI): Three persons were arrested here on Monday for allegedly abducting a 33-year-old businessman and extorting around Rs 3 lakh ransom from him, police said on Monday.
According to police, the incident took place on September 20 when the victim, Babloo Yadav, a West Bengal-based businessman, arrived in Delhi from Bagdogra Airport in Siliguri.
Yadav, who had come here to purchase apples from the wholesale market at Azadpur Mandi, was picked up from the airport in a taxi sent by his friend Ajay and dropped at Sector- 21 in Dwarka, police said.
After Yadav reached Dwarka, Ajay took him to an isolated flat where one of his associates was already present. The next day, four more of his accomplices came to his flat and forcibly took Yadav to an isolated dairy firm in Bahadurgarh by car, they added.
The accused threatened him with dire consequences and demanded money to set him free. They made Yadav call his relatives and send them a total of Rs 2.7 lakh through different five UPI IDs, the police said.
After getting the ransom money, the accused dropped him near Bahadurgarh City Metro Station and also warned him not to complain to police about the incident, they added.
On September 22, Yadav registered a complaint against five accused, including Ajay, at the Delhi Airport police station, DCP (IGI Airport) G Ram Gopal Naik said.
Based on the victim's complaint, an FIR was registered under sections 364 A (kidnapping for ransom) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code, the DCP said.
Police launched an investigation and arrested three accused -- Praveen Kumar (27), Vikas (26), and Harphool Singh (33) -- on Monday, he added.
Efforts are underway to nab Ajay and the fifth accused in the case, the DCP said.
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
