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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Four booked for tying 18-year-old to tree, beating him up in UP's Pratapgarh
Pratapgarh (UP) (PTI): Four people were booked here for the abduction and assault of a man who they allegedly tied to a tree and beat up, police said on Wednesday.
The incident, a video of which has gone viral, took place on Tuesday afternoon under the Kunda police station limits.
The FIR was registered on Wednesday evening based on a complaint from the victim's father.
According to Keshav Prasad Yadav, a resident of Mauli village, some people called his 18-year-old son Nikhil Yadav on the phone and asked him to come out of his house around 2.30 pm on Tuesday.
As he reached outside the village as instructed, the accused allegedly forced him into a car and took him towards the Tinpedwa forest area, where they tied him to a tree and assaulted, the complainant said.
The attackers also recorded a video of the incident and circulated it on social media. The purported video shows the men thrashing Nikhil one after another, while one of them is assumed to have recorded the act.
Kunda Station House Officer Manoj Pandey confirmed the incident and said efforts are underway to identify and arrest all the accused.
Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav has shared the video on social media, describing the incident as reflective of a "dominant mindset" against the PDA (Pichda or Backward, Dalit, and Alpasankhyak or Minority), and demanded strict action against the accused.
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