New Delhi:
A couple and their two associates roped in professional kidnappers and allegedly got themselves abducted along with a businessman friend so that they can get a part of the ransom.
According to the police, the whole plot was hatched by Arun Vohra, Shivika Chauhan, Sunny and Raj Walia. Vohra was having an affair with Shivika Chauhan and they realized that the kidnapping of a businessman by the name of Saurabh Ahuja would yield a large ransom. A conspiracy was hatched along with Sunny and Raju Walia to get the kidnapping underway.
The four kidnappers sought the help of criminals involved in kidnappings in the past.
"The gang kidnapped Saurabh Ahuja, a businessman in Shalimar Bagh, and demanded a ransom of Rs 2 crore. The money was to be divided equally between the conspirators and the actual kidnappers. The conspirators pretended that they have also been kidnapped and have paid ransom amount to free themselves," said Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Yadav.
A case in this regard was registered at Shalimar Bagh police station concerning the kidnapping of Mr Ahuja from his house in Shalimar Bagh.
Mr Ahuja, the complainant, has reported that he was kidnapped by 4-5 persons from his house along with his friends Manish, alias Sunny, and Shivika Chauhan and was confined to a room and beaten up, police said.
He was asked to make phone calls to his bank managers and family members to collect the money to pay the ransom of Rs 2 crore. They forced him to pay Rs 18 lakh in cash. Later, as part of the plan to extort more money, they brought his other colleagues, namely Raj Walia and Arun Vohra and took a ransom amount of Rs 80 lakh from Walia.
"But he later realized that actually the main conspiracy was planned by his colleagues and they were pretending to have been also kidnapped. Later on, it was revealed that they were not kidnapped and they were the real conspirators," said Yadav.
The co-conspirators, Sunil Rathee (30), a resident of Bahadurgarh, Haryana, Krishan (22) a resident of Rohtak, Haryana who is a national level kabbadi player, Ravi Hooda (22), Sandeep Sharma alias Pandit (21) both residents of Rohtak were arrested by the Crime Branch of Delhi Police on Friday while Arun Vohra, Shivika Chauhan, Sunny and Raj Walia are still on the run, said Mr Yadav.