New Delhi, July 20: After a 13-day drama, the police managed to rescue a doctor from Meerut, who was abducted from east Delhi’s Preet Vihar area, after a shootout with the kidnappers. Four men have been nabbed in this connection, the police said.
On July 6, Shrikant Gaur, who practies at a hospital in east Delhi, was kidnapped from Preet Vihar while travelling in an Ola cab. The abductors demanded a ransom of Rs 5 crore from his family members, who informed the police about the incident.
Posing as representative of the cab aggregator, the policemen spoke to the kidnappers and told them that they would pay the ransom amount since it was their customer who had been kidnapped. The police managed to track down the location of the accused in Daurala village in Meerut. They also sought the Meerut Police’s assistance in the operation.
On July 16, police were following a vehicle being driven by the kidnappers. However, after their vehicle got punctured, the accused left the vehicle and fled through some fields there, the police said.
The police identified two of the accused as Sushil and his brother Anuj, residents of Dadri village. Two others — Ombir and Gaurav Sharma — were involved in the kidnapping. Sushil is a driver with the cab aggregator firm and he had planned the kidnapping, the police said.
