A 30-year-old man was rescued from Chapra village in Rajasthan after his kidnappers lured him to collect a 4 kg gold brick from them and then abducted him, police said today.
With the man rescued, an alleged kingpin of an inter- state kidnappers' gang has been arrested, police said.
The drama began when the abducted man, a resident of Vikaspuri, received a call from an unknown person posing as a farmer who said he was in possession of a 4 kg gold brick which he found in a field while digging and didn't knew what to do with it, police said.
After a few conversations, the victim fell into the trap and reached Sohna in Haryana to collect the brick from where he was abducted and taken to an unknown place, police said.
"On July 30, an FIR was registered at Vikaspuri by victim's father after he received a ransom call from the kidnappers demanding Rs 6 lakh for his son's release," a police official said.
Through electronic surveillance we found the location of the abducted man from where he was rescued and the gang leader was nabbed, police said.
"The kidnapper has been identified as Md Aslam, he was the one who made the ransom call. He was traced and arrested by the raiding teams from Gopalgarh in Rajasthan yesterday," said Additional Commissioner of Police (West) V Renganathan.
During interrogation, Aslam confessed that he along with his brother and two other associates were involved in the abduction and other such cases.
Efforts are on to nab his other associates, police said.
