Police today arrested four persons who allegedly abducted a senior consultant at an MNC here, thrashed him severely in a moving car and robbed him of Rs 40,000 cash and other belongings last week.
The accused Vipin (28), Predeep (35), Sonu (35) and Ankit (23) are all members of a gang based in east Delhi's Trilokpuri area. All of them were arrested under criminal cases earlier, DCP (South) Ishwar Singh said.
Major leads which helped police crack the case include the brand new alloy wheels of the Santro car in which the complainant, Sumit Chakraborty (55), was abducted on May 11, and the fluent English speaking skills of one of the accused, an official privy to the investigation said.
While it was Vipin, believed to be the gang leader, who was identified first by Chakraborty after he was shown a dossier of criminals in the city, the police could not track him.
Pradeep was tracked first after police zeroed in on his Santro car in which he had installed alloy wheels around a fortnight back.
The fluent spoken English skills of Ankit, who is not even school educated, and his association with Vipin and Pradeep, informed by local sources, further ensured a convincing headway in the probe.
The gang had even used a fake wireless set with a pre-recorded message in Hindi to intimidate the victim, the official said.
Six police teams under the supervision of ACP (Operations) Rajinder Singh was formed to nab the accused at the earliest.
The gang was tracked down at Mathura, following which a team was sent there and they were brought here on transit remand. They were interrogated and later arrested in the wee hours today.
Chakrabarty, who is a senior consultant of a
multinational company, was thrashed and robbed of cash and other belongings by a group of men who allegedly abducted him from south Delhi's Andrews Ganj area on the pretext of offering a lift in their car on May 11.
The incident took place at around 7 am when Chakrabarty was waiting at the Andrews Ganj bus stand to go to his office in Noida.
Two men approached him wanting to know the direction to Anand Vihar ISBT and while Chakraborty was speaking, Vipin came in a car and asked for way to Noida, they said.
Within seconds, the first two agreed to sit inside the other man's car and persuaded Chakraborty to join them as they knew by then that he was going to Noida, police said.
During the journey, one of the passengers faked nausea and Ankit, who claimed to be a BSF personnel and spoke fluent English, pulled out a wireless set and started telling the person on the other side that some drunk men were with him in a car and he was going to bring them all to the nearest police station.
When Chakrabarty insisted on shifting to the middle seat to give way to the passenger who complained of vomiting, the other men started charging him with being drunk too.
He denied and said he was ready to go to police station. Chakraborty was suddenly hit by a blunt object on his face and the three pounced on him.
They then took him blindfolded to an ATM kiosk on the highway leading to Agra and made him withdraw Rs 40,000 which they immediately snatched along with mobile phone, gold ring and other belongings.
The group then dropped him at a secluded stretch in south Delhi. The victim managed to reach a private hospital nearby from where he called up police.
