Two former employees kidnap businessman, extort Rs 5 lakh from him in Gujarat

RAJKOT: Two former employees in connivance with three others kidnapped a ceramic industrialist of Morbi and extorted Rs five lakh from him.
The police arrested three of the five and recovered Rs 2.16 lakh from them.
Using human sources and technical surveillance, police arrested Rohit alias Rajkumar Mandloi (23), a resident of Dhar district, Jayant Behra (30) and Tapan alias Manoj Behra (27), both residents of Orissa. Two more are yet to be arrested.
The Morbi taluka police station had received a complaint on April 24 by Jignesh Bhattsana, who owns a ceramic factory. Wen Bhattsana was going to his factory on a bike on April 23, a man with face covered with a handkerchief suddenly appeared from the shrubs on Shanala Road and pushed him. As Bhattasana fell down, another person came there and they forced him into a car.
Four people were in the car, and when they uncovered their faces, Bhattsana found that two were his former employees.
On reaching Halvad, Tapan told Bhattsana that he owed him Rs 1.50 lakh from the time he was working in the factory. He demanded Rs 10 lakh, but Bhattsana said to him that since it was a Sunday he would not be able to manage the money. The accused then held him at knifepoint and threatened to kill him.
The victim got scared and asked the kidnappers to connect him with his partner Vishal over the phone. They asked him to hand over Rs five lakh to their aide Dhuva.
The kidnappers drove up to Soni ni Chali in Ahmedabad and started driving towards Indore. They were in contact with Vishal who handed over the amount to Dhuva. After ensuring their man got the money, they released the businessman near Narol Circle in Ahmedabad.
The victim then contacted his brother in Ahmedabad who dropped him off near Viramgam, where his partner and family members picked him up. Vishal told him that the man to whom he handed over the extortion money was Tapan’s brother who used to come to meet him at the factory.
“We verified the kidnappers’ route through CCTV and technical survey and found that they had escaped towards Dhar. We have sent a team there and based on human sources, we caught three of them from Sarasgav of Manavar taluka,” a senior police officer said.