A joint team of the Uttar Pradesh police and Special Task Force (STF) on Saturday rescued the six-year-old child who was abducted from Gonda. A total of five people, including a couple were arrested following an encounter between the kidnappers and the STF-Gonda Police team. Commenting on the case, Prashant Kumar, ADG Law & Order, Uttar Pradesh Police said the child was successfully rescued.
“The kidnapped child has been rescued and all five kidnappers arrested. A reward of Rs 2 lakh has been declared for the STF-Gonda Police team, who successfully conducted the operation,” said Awnish Kumar Awasthi, additional chief secretary (ACS) (home), UP.
The child was the grandson of gutkha trader Rajesh Kumar Gupta and was abducted on Friday afternoon.
According to the police, the accused allegedly carried the identity cards of the health department came to Karnalganj area of the district on the pretext of distributing masks.
The minor boy was standing at a distance when the accused persons in a car approached him to give hand sanitiser and pulled him inside the vehicle, the police said.
After some time, a woman called the boy's family members demanding a ransom of Rs 4 crore, they said.
However, as per eyewitnesses, the team which had come to the locality did not have any woman.
The police also examined the CCTV footage in the area.
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