Press Trust of India, Updated: January 30, 2011 00:27 IST
Puducherry: The police rescued an eight-year old boy who was kidnapped for ransom here and arrested a three-member gang which was allegedly involved in the abduction.
The boy, studying in the second standard, went missing since Friday evening. His mother had complained that her brother had received a call from an unidentified person that the boy would be released on payment of Rs. five lakh, police said.
The boy's father is employed abroad and the mother suspected her husband's friend, the police said.
He was taken into custody on Saturday and on interrogation confessed to having kidnapped the boy with the help of two other accomplices for ransom to be used in starting a self-employment project, the police said.
The accomplices were later arrested.
The police rescued the boy who was confined in a rented house.
Puducherry: The police rescued an eight-year old boy who was kidnapped for ransom here and arrested a three-member gang which was allegedly involved in the abduction.
The boy, studying in the second standard, went missing since Friday evening. His mother had complained that her brother had received a call from an unidentified person that the boy would be released on payment of Rs. five lakh, police said.
The boy's father is employed abroad and the mother suspected her husband's friend, the police said.
He was taken into custody on Saturday and on interrogation confessed to having kidnapped the boy with the help of two other accomplices for ransom to be used in starting a self-employment project, the police said.
The accomplices were later arrested.
The police rescued the boy who was confined in a rented house.
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