Adobe CEO's son will be traced soon: Mulayam
The case pertaining to the kidnapping of Adobe India CEO Naresh Gupta’s three-year-old son from a Noida colony would be cracked in a day or two, claimed Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav on Wednesday.
By Man Mohan Rai, TNN |
LUCKNOW: The case pertaining to the kidnapping of Adobe India CEO Naresh Gupta’s three-year-old son from a Noida colony would be cracked in a day or two, claimed Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav on Wednesday.
After taking a flak on the law and order scenario in UP’s showpiece industrial township Noida, the CM said the police had got vital clues and the boy would be traced soon.
There have been reports that the Gupta household has received a ransom call on Tuesday morning, though the same has been denied by the police. Anant Gupta was kidnapped by two helmet-clad motorcycle-borne youths from Sector 15-A in Noida on Monday.
The case is being handled by the elite Special Task Force of the UP police and six teams have been formed to trace the abductors. While the teams have fanned out to several places in Noida and other adjoining cities, the state police is in close touch with their counterparts in New Delhi.
Police sources say besides the usual ransom kidnapping, they are also looking at the angle of a possible family-related dispute in the entire episode. The police is interrogating Seema, the household maid, who had started working for the Guptas from June this year and the private security guard at the colony gate Kamleshwar, who had tried to stop the kidnappers from fleeing.
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IG STF, Jag Mohan Yadav, who along with IG police is camping in Noida to keep a close watch on the case, said: “We have developed vital leads and are close to nabbing the criminals. However, we would not like to discuss the issue with the media as it would alert the kidnappers.” The STF is using mobile surveillance, and a massive manhunt is on to hunt down the culprits.Noida, which happens to be the major revenue earner of the state and one of its most industrialised regions, has of late evolved into a favourite hot spot for software firms and MNCs. But the case of Anant’s kidnapping, including some similar incidents in the recent past, have marred the image of Noida. Though part of the NCR, the law and order in Noida comes under the UP police purview.
On February 13 this year, in a case of high-profile dacoity an armed gang had broken into the residence of Microsoft India corporate chief Rakesh Mohan Bakshi in Noida sector 44. Though the case was solved later, there have been a spate of kidnappings in Noida and adjoining areas in the recent past.
In fact, in UP alone some 130 kidnappings have occurred in the past 10 months. Though the UP police has ruled out the hand of any kidnapping gang in Anant’s case, it’s suspected that somebody known to the family — as the kidnappers had worn masks to disguise themselves — or some first-timers may have committed the crime.
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