Daijiworld Media Network –Mangalore/Ahmedabad
Mangalore, Oct 28: In a bid to help her lover who belongs to Mangalore, to clear his debts, a 20-year-old girl conspired to abduct her own five-year-old cousin Adithya.
Payal Balachandrani residing at Mani Nagar, Ahmedabad kidnapped her own cousin Adithya with the help of her lover, Mangalorean Nishanth Shetty (21) and his friends Dhanwik Shah (24), Devendra Shukla (21). Police sources say that after kidnapping the little one, they demanded Rs 1 crore from the family.
Crime branch DCP Himamshu Shukla received a complaint that Payal and Adithya, who had gone out to buy medicines were missing. The police started tracing them after Rs 1 crore was demanded by the kidnappers.
The kidnappers told the family to send the money to nearby club. After negotiations they decreased the amount to Rs 50 lac. Dhanwik Shah and Devendra Shukla had come to collect the money to the club. When police arrested the duo and investigated the case, involvement of lover girl in the kidnap was revealed to the police.
Investigations also proved that they had planned to kill Aditya whether or not they got the money as he would have exposed the plot.
It was also revealed that Aditya had been locked up in a closed office on the seventh floor of Wall Street building near Gujarat College. When the cops reached there, they found Nishant standing with him.
Nishanth Shetty was in the habit of involving in betting and had lost Rs 10 lac. His lady love thus went to his aid through this kidnap scheme. Also, during police interrogation, it is learnt that a, year ago Payal had stolen gold worth Rs 65,000 and had handed it over to her lover Nishanth.