Man wanted for kidnapping teenager arrested after 10 yrs

A 50-year-old man has been arrested from Uttar Pradesh in connection with the abduction of a local teenage boy, nearly a decade after the incident, police said.
However, arrest of Kadir Choudhary on January 15 revealed that the 16-year-old victim, identified as Pramod Gautam, died after he fell from a truck in which his abductors were shifting him, sometime in January 2005.
"The boy fell from the truck near Nashik and was ran over by another vehicle which resulted into his death," Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Parag Manere said today.
Gautam, a resident of Wagle Estate here, was abducted on January 7, 2005 by four persons due to a business rivalry with his family members who are scrap merchants.

Though police had arrested Abdul Choudhary (38), Mohammad Khan (35) and Jalal Khan (50) in connection with the kidnapping, Kadir remained at large.
Police, who recently opened up pending cases under their jurisdiction, conducted an investigation and finally traced Kadir in UP.

Kadir told us that Gautam fell from the truck near Divagaon enroute to Nashik on the Mumbai-Agra highway and was ran over by another vehicle, police said.
Kadir then dumped his body by the roadside with the help of Mohammad Hameel alias Laddu Abbas Khan and truck driver Jallaluddin 'Jumman' Khan, they said.
Incidentally, the Narpoli police in Bhiwandi taluka had registered a case for rash driving and causing death by negligence under IPC against unidentified persons and disposed of the body.

Police are investigating various angles in the case, the DCP said.