Delhi: Trader abducted, robbed of Rs 19 lakh by men posing as Haryana cops

NEW DELHI: A businessman was abducted and robbed of Rs 19 lakh by six men who claimed to be from Haryana Police.
The man, Sanjeev Kumar, stays in Hyderabad. On October 31, he said, he went to a client’s house in Patel Nagar to collect payment for a delivery he had made earlier. Around 7.30pm, after he stepped out of the client’s house and got into his car with three other colleagues, three men held him by his collar and dragged him out. One of the men was armed with an AK rifle. Three other men were waiting in an SUV nearby.

They forced him to enter the car and started thrashing him. “They said they were from STF and had information about me being a smuggler,” Kumar said. The men then drove the car to an unknown location where they asked him to hand over Rs 9 lakh he had collected from the client. They put a pistol on his temple and threatened to shoot him if he didn’t budge.

Kumar was then asked to call a friend and borrow Rs 10 lakh and get it transferred into his account. Kumar said he was then driven around Bahadurgarh, after which he was brought back to Delhi. They stopped at a 24x7 store for shopping. Kumar was then driven to a Rohini mall and dumped there.

The businessman contacted a friend there and went to the Ranjeet Nagar police station where he was allegedly asked to settle the matter and not proceed with a case. It was only four days later that an FIR was lodged and that too after Kumar met the home minister and moved court, Kumar claimed. Police, however, denied there was any delay.

Kumar also said he was not informed about the FIR. “Neither the SHO or IO contacted me. They detained one person but let him off as he was politically connected,” Kumar said.

Additional DCP (central) Amit Sharma said a case was registered and action would be taken once sufficient proof was available. Police sources also suspected that Kumar’s abductors could be members of Bahadurgarh STF.