Police suspect domestic help of kidnapping 91-year-old after stuffing him into fridge
New Delhi: Police suspect that a 91-year-old retired government employee was kidnapped by his domestic help who locked him in a refrigerator and carried it away in a tempo, after the duo was found missing under mysterious circumstances from South Delhi's posh Greater Kailash area.
Jewellery and cash besides the refrigerator were stolen from the house of Kishan Khosla, who was found missing since Sunday morning, said a senior police officer.
The businessman son of Khosla found his mother, Saroj Khosla (87), unconscious when he visited the flat on Sunday morning and informed the police.
Saroj Khosla complained that their domestic help, who is also named Kishan, mixed some sedative in tea on Saturday night. The domestic help belonged to Bihar and lived locally at Sangam Vihar, he said.
The security guards of the area claimed that they saw the domestic help carrying the refrigerator in a tempo along with his accomplices. He told the guards that he was taking the fridge for repair when they questioned him, police said.
"It is suspected that the elderly man was kept inside the fridge," a police officer said.
The couple lived on rented first floor flat of a building in the Greater Kailash-I for last few months. They have two sons one of whom lives in Australia while the other is a businessman who resides in a nearby area, police said.
The CCTV cameras in the area including one at the parking lot near the couple's building were not functioning so there was no video footage available which could have helped in investigation, the police officer said.
"We are trying to scan more CCTV cameras in the area for clues," he said.
Several teams have been formed to find out the missing elderly man and the domestic help.
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Man arrested with Rs 2.54-crore heroin in Mumbai
Mumbai (PTI): Police have arrested a man and seized over 500 grams of heroin worth Rs 2.54 crore in the illicit market from him in Mumbai, officials said on Friday.
The police's Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) made the drug seizure in Santacruz in the western suburbs. The operation was conducted by the Kandivali unit of the ANC on Thursday as part of a special crackdown against drug trafficking in the area, they said.
Acting on specific inputs, an ANC team conducted a raid in Santacruz (East) and intercepted a man. During a search, the team recovered 508 grams of high-grade heroin from his possession, an official said.
The seized contraband, a highly addictive, opioid drug derived from morphine, is estimated to be worth Rs 2.54 crore in the international market, he informed.
Following the seizure, a case was registered against the man under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, and he was formally placed under arrest in the early hours of Friday.
The police are currently investigating the source of the drug and trying to identify the intended recipients of the consignment, he said.
