Police today rescued a 28-year-old son of a businessman here, who was kidnapped by six persons including a staff of the victim's father, and arrested the accused.
"Ankit Purushottam Rathi, son of a sugar trader from Hadapsar area in the city, was kidnapped last night. His captors had sought Rs 3 crore ransom from his father," DCP (Crime) P R Patil said.
One of the accused, Narayan Vaishnav, was a former employee of Ankit's father and hatched the plan along with the others, the DCP said.
Ankit was waylaid by the accused last night when he was returning home from office. They took him in a car and drove outside city. The accused then started calling up Ankit's father and threatened to kill his son if their demand is not met, Patil said.
The businessman approached the Anti-Extortion Cell and the sleuths started tracking the location of the kidnappers, he said, adding, "The abductors used to ask the victim's father to bring money at a certain place at one time, but then changed the location."
Patil said since the kidnappers were changing their location, it was difficult for police to zero in on them.
"However, the sleuths managed to trace them and rescued the victim from a car in a village on Pune-Solapur Road," he said.
The accused, Anil Dahire, Nikhil Kamble, Prakash Divakar, Rohit Sathe, Nitin Bendre and Narayan Vaishnav, were arrested and produced before a local court which remanded them in police custody till July 4, the DCP said.
