Trio held for kidnapping of property dealer

Three persons, including a woman gym trainer, have been arrested for allegedly kidnapping a 50-year-old property dealer for ransom from west Delhi's Punjabi Bagh area, police said today.
The victim, identified as one Mahender Bansal, a resident of the Anand Parbat area, was abducted on Monday with the kidnappers making a ransom demand of Rs 5 lakh in exchange for his release.
Police claimed that the trio, who had initially taken him to a village in Uttar Pradesh, dropped him off at a bus stand in the national capital following unrelenting police pressure.
One of the accused, identified as Amir Siddiqui (36), was arrested from his Uttam Nagar home on Tuesday evening. A revolver and some cartridges were allegedly recovered from his possession. Siddiqui was previously involved in six criminal cases, police said.

Thereafter, Jyoti Verma (30), a Delhi University graduate working as a gym trainer, and Abhishek (36), an MBA, were also nabbed on the basis of information gleaned from Siddiqui.
Abhishek dabbled in the share market where he is said to have suffered heavy losses. He knew Bansal and gave information about him to Siddiqui to enable the kidnapping in exchange for money, police said.

"We received a PCR call at 8 P.M. On Monday from the victim's business partner Amit Chandok that Bansal had been kidnapped by some unknown persons," said Additional Commissioner of Police (West), Ranvir Singh.
"Several teams were formed, technical surveillance was done and raids were conducted at ISBT, Seelam Pur, Khajuri Khas, Ghaziabad, etc.

"Following sustained pressure, at 4.00 A.M. On Tuesday, the victim was dropped off at ISBT," said Singh.
Bansal had noted the registration number of the vehicle in which he was abducted. On the basis of his inputs, raids were conducted at various places in order to nab the three accused, he added.