Accused in police custody
A youth was abducted from Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad, who has been traced by the police from a forest in Mathura. A police official said that two criminals involved in the incident have been arrested. His two other associates are also being sought. Police are interrogating the arrested accused.
The name of the youth kidnapped by miscreants is Praveen. After the kidnapping, the miscreants demanded a ransom of Rs 50 lakh from Praveen’s family to release him. Praveen is a resident of Vijayanagar, Ghaziabad. The young man is also a YouTuber. The YouTuber who was kidnapped also runs a gaming app.
1.5 crore lost in online games
People used to play online games through gaming apps. Most people lost their money in this online game. One of the kidnappers accused, Surendra, had lost Rs 1.5 crore on this gaming app, and kidnapped Praveen to get it back. For this he helped his friends.
The police received information that an elderly resident of Noida’s Bisrakh police station area had informed the Vijayanagar police in Ghaziabad about the abduction of his 35-year-old son Praveen Singh. The police immediately registered a case and formed different police teams to find the accused.
Arrest of two accused
Within 24 hours, the police rescued Praveen safely from the forest in Mathura. Also, two kidnappers have been arrested, while the remaining two accomplices are absconding. The police said that the accused Surendra had lost Rs 1.5 crore through the gaming app. The name of this gaming app was Tiranga Gaming App. The gaming app had around 3 lakh subscribers, which Praveen was handling. Praveen also used to advertise this gaming app on Instagram.
The accused told the police that many people have lost huge amounts of money in this app. After the loss, they hatched a plan to kidnap Praveen, a trikler gaming app operator, to recover their money, as per the plan, Rahul Gupta Surendramani, Ritesh Chaudhary stopped Praveen Singh with his Fortuner car on the Ghaziabad Indian Oil Highway and then kidnapped him. took him to Mathura.
It is said that seven cases have been registered in Ghaziabad and Noida police stations against accused Manish, one of the kidnappers. Apart from this, another accused Surendra also has four criminal cases registered in different police stations of Mathura district. While the rest of his accomplices are still absconding.
What did the police officer say?
DCP Rajesh Kumar Singh said that Jagdu Singh, an elderly resident of Noida’s Bisrakh police station area, reported the abduction of his son Praveen Singh to the police of Vijayanagar police station. After this, the police started searching for the accused. DCP said that no mobile was working after the incident. But Praveen had a watch with an electronic device attached to his wrist, which traced his location to Mathura.
The place was in the forests of Farha Police Station area of ​​Mathura. The police reached there and rescued Praveen from the clutches of the kidnappers. Police arrested two accused of kidnapping. The names of the arrested accused are Manish and Surendra.
The accused who hatched the conspiracy to kidnap Praveen had come to Ghaziabad a day before and spent the night in a hotel room. According to the kidnapping plan, Praveen was chased in the car of accused Surendra on the next day on September 5. Then Surendra’s car hit Praveen’s car. Praveen got down from the car after the collision. The kidnappers abducted him and then put him in a car and took him to the jungles of Mathura. Here he was first beaten up and a ransom of Rs 50 lakh was demanded from his family.
