Police rescue Mumbai man from abductors in Dehradun
The alleged kidnappers
A Mumbai-based man was kidnapped in Dehradun on June 30 and after having been kept in captivity for nearly nine days, the Dehradun police managed to rescue him and arrest four of his kidnappers on Tuesday from Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh . The kidnappers demanded a ransom from the family, tortured the victim and tied him with a chain. The victim's son said the family had paid Rs 50,000 to the kidnappers and bought time so that the police can track them.
Those arrested were Shoaib Shaikh, Danish Ali, Shahbaaz and Raees.
On June 30, victim Mohammad Mujib Ahmed Shaikh (49), a resident of Qureshi Nagar inKurla (E), and a site supervisor had left home after informing his family that he is going to Dehradun for some work. Shaikh had taken a flight from Mumbai to Dehradun.
Mujahid added that the kidnappers used Shaikh's phone to contact his family. "They took due care of not using any other number and to send across a message that the kidnapping was genuine and that my father was indeed in their custody. They kept asking for a ransom of Rs 5 lakh to free my father. On July 5, I did an online transfer of Rs 30,000 and Rs 20,000 respectively in my father's account, but they then kept demanding more money from us," he said.
"They used to keep his phone on speaker mode and beat him up and we could helplessly hear his cries. I had told my father to send us his location from his mobile phone whenever he gets an opportunity. Thankfully he got an opportunity and he had sent his GPS location to us through WhatsApp. We approached Chunabhatti police, who then alerted their Dehradun counterparts about the same," said Mujahid.
"On July 8, we got information about Mujib's abduction. We immediately acted on the information and lodged a case against Shoaib," Senior Superintendent of Police, Dehradun, Nivedita Kukreti told Mumbai Mirror.
"The police had told us to keep kidnappers engaged with assurances that money would be sent to them and this would give police some time to trace the culprits. On Tuesday, the police managed to trace the culprits and nabbed them from Kushalpur village in Mirzapur area of Saharanpur District," said Mujahid.
"Shoaib, who is known to the victim had induced him to meet him at Dehradun. They tricked the victim on the pretext of roping him in a business of selling mangoes to Russia. Mujib had earlier worked in Qatar and one of the accused Shoaib had met him in Qatar and was in touch with him. After the victim landed in Dehradun, the accused kidnapped him, took him to jungles of Dehradun in a vehicle. From there they took him to Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh. Two more persons involved in the case are on the run," said SSP Kukreti.
"The Dehradun police had told us that when they had rescued my father from the clutches of the kidnappers, they found my father tied with a chain in a bed. The kidnappers had also forced my father to use his ATM card to withdraw money. We are thankful to the efforts taken by Mumbai and Dehradun police," Mujahid said.
Those arrested were Shoaib Shaikh, Danish Ali, Shahbaaz and Raees.
On June 30, victim Mohammad Mujib Ahmed Shaikh (49), a resident of Qureshi Nagar in
"Later same night, I received a phone call from my father from his cell phone. He sounded very frightened. He told me that he had been abducted by Shoaib, who was known to him and his accomplices from Jolly Grant Airport in Dehradun and was taken to a jungle. Since then, we had been getting ransom calls from the kidnappers," Shaikh's son Mujahid, a student, told Mumbai Mirror.
Mujahid added that the kidnappers used Shaikh's phone to contact his family. "They took due care of not using any other number and to send across a message that the kidnapping was genuine and that my father was indeed in their custody. They kept asking for a ransom of Rs 5 lakh to free my father. On July 5, I did an online transfer of Rs 30,000 and Rs 20,000 respectively in my father's account, but they then kept demanding more money from us," he said.
"They used to keep his phone on speaker mode and beat him up and we could helplessly hear his cries. I had told my father to send us his location from his mobile phone whenever he gets an opportunity. Thankfully he got an opportunity and he had sent his GPS location to us through WhatsApp. We approached Chunabhatti police, who then alerted their Dehradun counterparts about the same," said Mujahid.
"On July 8, we got information about Mujib's abduction. We immediately acted on the information and lodged a case against Shoaib," Senior Superintendent of Police, Dehradun, Nivedita Kukreti told Mumbai Mirror.
"The police had told us to keep kidnappers engaged with assurances that money would be sent to them and this would give police some time to trace the culprits. On Tuesday, the police managed to trace the culprits and nabbed them from Kushalpur village in Mirzapur area of Saharanpur District," said Mujahid.
"Shoaib, who is known to the victim had induced him to meet him at Dehradun. They tricked the victim on the pretext of roping him in a business of selling mangoes to Russia. Mujib had earlier worked in Qatar and one of the accused Shoaib had met him in Qatar and was in touch with him. After the victim landed in Dehradun, the accused kidnapped him, took him to jungles of Dehradun in a vehicle. From there they took him to Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh. Two more persons involved in the case are on the run," said SSP Kukreti.
"The Dehradun police had told us that when they had rescued my father from the clutches of the kidnappers, they found my father tied with a chain in a bed. The kidnappers had also forced my father to use his ATM card to withdraw money. We are thankful to the efforts taken by Mumbai and Dehradun police," Mujahid said.
