Police said the accused hatched the plan to get money to gain entry into Bollywood. (File photo)
A five-year-old boy was allegedly kidnapped to finance the kidnapper's entry into Bollywood. The Palghar police in Maharashtra have arrested three persons in connection with the case. According to the police, the main accused allegedly knew the parents of the boy.
Mukesh Sakat (20), the main accused and hatched the plan to kidnap because he wanted money to gain entry into Bollywood, police said. The kidnappers, however, panicked and abandoned the boy a few hours after taking him away.
Sakat, Mukesh Rajput (19) and Bhavesh Bhoir (19) were nabbed on the intervening night of August 24 and 25, said additional Superintendent of Police Dr Raj Tilak Roshan.
Two other accomplices of Sakat were absconding.
The boy was abducted from near his house in Nalasopara in the district on the afternoon of August 24. Kidnappers called the parents and demanded Rs 6 lakh in ransom, to be handed over at Churchgate in Mumbai.
As the police launched a massive search operation in Palghar district, the accused panicked and left the sleeping boy on a platform by the roadside in Satpati area of Palghar town late at night.
He was reunited with his parents after the police found him.
Subsequently Sakat, Rajput and Bhoir were nabbed, while a hunt is on for two others involved in the crime.