Around two months after Ankit Gupta was allegedly abducted from outside his house in northeast Delhi's Babarpur area and later murdered, police had yesterday apprehended two persons, including a juvenile, in connection with the case.
During interrogation, the juvenile, who had studied with Gupta upto Class 7, had allegedly hatched the conspiracy to earn quick money and roped in the other accused, Zeeshan (19), a driver by profession to execute the plan, an official privy to the investigation said.
Further investigation into the shortlisted 83 numbers and their data analysis led police to a bunch of suspects, the official said.
Digging deeper into the matter, the police zeroed in on the accused juvenile. They claimed that he initially tried to mislead investigators but later broke down. At one point, the police also went on to assume that Gupta himself could be involved in his own abduction, the official said.
Also Read
The family informed the matter to the police and negotiated the ransom at Rs 20 lakh, keeping police in loop.
The abductors kept misleading the family and the police for days and later stopped calling.
On March 20, the police concluded that Ankit was killed after some of the details about the boy matched with that of a body found at a village under UP's Gautam Budh Nagar district more than one month ago.