A Gujarat-based businessman, who was kidnapped from Ahmedabad on Monday, was rescued from a house outside a village here this evening following a brief encounter between the alleged kidnappers and the police.
Also, police claimed to have unearthed an illegal arms factory in the house located at the outskirts of village Nagla Imam Khan falling under Barsana police station area.
"Deependra alias Deepesh, a resident of Neta Ji Nagar in Ahemdabad, kidnapped from Ahemdabad on Monday, was rescued from the outskirts ofNagla Imam Khan-basedhouse where he was found tied with an iron chain," Superintendent of Police (Rural) Arun Kumar Singh said.
"An (illegal) arms factory was also unearthed inside the house," he added.
Singh said the kidnappers, who had demanded a ransom of Rs 50 lakh from the business partners of Deepesh, who owns around a dozen companies, after seeing the police party fled covering themselves with indiscriminate firing.
Of the six kidnappers, three, including a lady, have been identified as Zamshed, his wife Rukseena and his brother Balia, all residents of village Nagla Imam Khan.
"Kidnappers were demanding ransom of 50 lakh from my partners Shubham Patel and Bhavesh Gusain, on their telephone numbers,"Deependra stated, adding that the kidnappers already had taken a ransom of Rs50,000 by getting ittransferred to their account from his partners.
He said in this joint operation of Barsana and Ahmedabad police, the location of kidnappers was known from their mobile numbers.
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