Chapter 1
This is a story of an amazing kidnap, where a huge ransom was paid to the kidnappers for releasing the victim. In this story, a high profile businessman’s son was kidnapped. Police tried to track the kidnappers by using all the mediums, but fails.
One month later, the victim was released after the ransom amount was received. After the victim reaches his house then the real story begins.
This is a story of a rich and affluent businessman of Surat in Gujarat. His business spanned many places in the state. His entire family lived in Surat. He had a son named Sohail, aged about 35 years and his son used to help his father manage the large spanned business.
One day his son visited one of the factories in the morning. Later in the evening when he came out of the factory and was leaving for his house, few men suddenly appeared in their vehicle and stopped his car.
They pounced on him, and a scuffle broke out. The men succeeded in overpowering Sohail and put him in their vehicle and left the spot. They inject him with some chemicals that made Sohail unconscious.
As this incident happened just a few meters away from their factory gate few people saw it and reported to the manager in the factory. The manager immediately reported the same to the businessman’s family in Surat.
Chapter 2
Police were informed about this kidnapping. They put all the phones of the family members on surveillance. Four days later, a phone call was received for ransom. A huge sum of about 100 crores was demanded from the businessman as ransom amount. Though the businessman was quite affluent such a ransom amount was beyond their capability.
They informed police about the ransom call. The next day another call was received from kidnappers, and this continued for few more days. The kidnappers were negotiating the ransom amount.
Each ransom call was made from different numbers and from different locations. So the police were not able to track down the call. After each ransom call police use to call, that number but didn’t receive any response.
A total of 18 calls were made by kidnappers for negotiating the ransom amount, but the police were still in the dark as they were not able to track the number. Police were confirmed that this kidnapping was done with full planning.
Family members were getting worried about their son’s well being as almost 15 days had passed. In the meantime, during the calls, the ransom amount was negotiated and the amount that was agreed about came to about 20 crores.
When police tried to locate the position of SIM card from which calls were made, they found that all calls were made from new numbers belonging to different states of India.
Chapter 3
After much negotiations that spanned nearly one month, kidnappers told the family, to reach Patna with the ransom amount. They did not provide any location in Patna. When the businessman reached Patna with the amount, he was told to reach Chapra, about 80 kilometres from Patna.
The kidnappers also told them, that after receiving the amount they will disclose the location where they can find their son alive. But they also threatened them against involving police otherwise they would find their son dead.
Police were not able to do much, and the businessman family was worried about the well being of their son, so they decided to obey kidnappers’ commands. Police also thought that let the son reach home alive safely than they could investigate further.
After paying the ransom amount in Chapra the businessman was informed about his son’s location in Patna. On reaching the pre-determined location in Patna they found their son, Sohail tied up and alive.
The family returned to Surat along with his son. Once Sohail was declared medically fit, police started their investigation again, as the criminals were still at large and no one was yet apprehended.
Chapter 4
Sohail revealed that, as soon as he was kidnapped, he was given some injections that made him unconscious and blindfolded. Whenever he woke up he was provided with another shot of potent injection.
He could just remember that he was travelling in a car but could not identify the place. He stayed at few places for 2-3 days each but again was not able to provide any details about the place.
He further added that he was kept under lock and key in a room that didn’t have any windows and that he was not allowed to move out. Moreover, the kidnappers never called each other by name, so he didn’t know the names of kidnappers. He was not able to provide any clue to police from where they could start their investigation.
He told the police investigators that, he was shifted to a house where he stayed the maximum number of days. There was a marriage ceremony in that house and that he was forced to paint the bedroom of the groom’s house. During the entire marriage occasion, he was locked in another room and was guarded, he was not allowed to speak to anyone.
The room in which he was locked had a television, and he used to watch movies. He was feed properly and was not tortured by the kidnappers during his entire stay with them.
Police kept on asking him about any relevant clue that could lead them to the kidnappers. One day during the investigation, Sohail provided vital information that he had recollected and that proved to be the turning point in this case.
Chapter 5
Sohail told that he used to watch TV in his room. Due to lack of balance amount in the set-top box that was connected to the TV, a message flashed displaying the customer ID of the connection stating to recharge the set-top box to continue enjoying channels.
He was not able to view any channels on TV for three days as the same message kept re-appearing. He remembered the 10 digit customer ID and gave that to the police. Police first identified the TV operator to which this ID belonged.
They gathered information about the customer from the operator. They came to identify that the TV connection belonged to a house at Chapra in Bihar, and marriage ceremony occurred in that house of Mr Ranjit Singh recently.
Police arrested the family members of Ranjit Singh. It was revealed after a police investigation that the family of Ranjit Singh had planned this kidnapping. The entire family used to work as a gang. Some members were given the task of identifying and selection of the target.
Other members were given the task of kidnapping; few members were given the task of selecting and providing shelter to the victim.
Chapter 6
Some members were sent to different states along with new SIM cards to make ransom calls. Everything was planned by this family of Ranjit Singh and each member of the family was assigned designated task.
It was later found that a total of 40 members of the same family were involved in this kidnapping. After receiving the ransom amount, each member was given their due share depending upon the member’s role in the entire process.
The accounts of family members were ceased and later the some of the ransom amounts were recovered from the accounts. Police were able to arrest the kidnapper’s gang based on one small clue that seemed irrelevant at first.
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