It was a high-stakes crackdown for police, as some of the people had been held captive in Delhi and Kolkata for the past three months. Those rescued include a two-year-old girl from Ahmedabad, and others from Gandhinagar and Mehsana.
Officers of Gandhinagar Police said that the family members of one of the abducted persons had approached chief minister Bhupendra Patel for redress last week. The CM instructed minister of state for home Harsh Sanghavi to have a rescue mission launched. On Sanghavi’s direction, Gandhinagar range IGP Abhay Chudasama and Gandhinagar SP Mayur Chavda formed several teams.
A team of Gandhinagar’s local crime branch learnt that two couples had been confined to a hotel near the Delhi airport and 11 were locked up in houses and hotels in Kolkata. A team of Gandhinagar Police along with the special cell of Delhi Police raided the hotel in the national capital on Friday and rescued the two abducted couples. The 11 in Kolkata were released immediately by the abductors. The four persons were sent to Ahmedabad by air and the 11 were brought by train to the city, said a police officer.
Sources in police said that they have caught an agent named Rajesh Patel from Ranip in Ahmedabad who with the help of Sushil Roy and his brother Santosh hatched the conspiracy to abduct people and extort money from them. Another Kolkata-based person, Kamal Singhania, was involved in the racket. The police officer said that one of the victim’s relatives had been sent to Russia by Patel earlier, so the family trusted him. To go to Canada, the victims gave the agents up to Rs 30 lakh per person; some gave substantially more. The agents sent people to Delhi first.
Subsequently, the victims were taken to various places in Delhi and Kolkata. They were all confined and brutally tortured. The victims were forced to tell their families that they had been detained in Canada and needed money to pay the authorities. With this modus operandi, the agents extorted at least Rs 3.74 crore from the victims’ families.
The accused used to thrash the victims and even separated two young children, including the two-year-old girl, from their parents and threatened to sell the children if the money didn’t come in.
Another agent, Ramesh Patel from Nava Naroda, has been detained in the case. Sushil and Santosh Roy and Singhania are on the run.
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