New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) Cracking a case of abduction for ransom, Delhi Police Saturday rescued a 16-year old mentally challenged school student from northeast Delhi and arrested two people in this connection.
According to police, the accused Noor Mohammed and his accomplice Arif Rahim allegedly abducted Fateh Khan Thursday from outside Divya Public School at Nand Nagri locality in northeast Delhi and demanded a ransom of Rs.100,000 from the boy's parents.
The duo hails from Ghaziabad, a satellite town of the national capital. Mohammed, the main accused, is a relative of the boy's family and had asked his parents to bring the money near the Apsara border in Uttar Pradesh, police said.
During investigations, both the accused revealed that the ransom call was made from a public telephone booth near Apsara border area. However, police did not get any clue from the booth owner.
Police said they had also questioned the family members of the kidnapped boy. Later they pin pointed on Mohamed, as he was absconding for the past 15 days.
"Acting on a tip-off, we arrested the duo and during interrogations they confessed to their crime and revealed the address where the boy had been kept," Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police Rupinder Kumar said.