AFP
NOIDA, Nov 20: The Indian head of US software giant Adobe Systems Inc on Sunday said international experts, offers of a hefty ransom and technology helped him rescue his abducted three-year-old son.
"It was all these three as well as police support which brought my son back," Naresh Gupta, chief executive officer of Adobe Systems India, said as officers paraded one of the arrested kidnappers before reporters.
Anant Gupta's abduction by two men on motorcycles on Monday outside the Adobe's chief executive's home in the Delhi suburb of Noida made headlines in Indian newspapers and sparked a national debate on domestic security.
"There is a deep distrust for the police in India but the officers I worked with proved the system can deliver," said Gupta, whose son was rescued four days after the abduction.
The Adobe chief said he was returning home from his company headquarters in the United States and was informed of his son's kidnapping while transitting at Hong Kong.
"From Hong Kong I spoke with multiple people and when I returned to India we brought in an anti-abduction expert from the Phillipines and stayed in touch with another in the US," Gupta said, without disclosing identities.
Gupta hooked up computers to telephones and used tracking software to help police zero in on the abductors, who made several calls to negotiate a ransom of five million rupees.
"We did not let the police in and we communicated with all those involved in the rescue through e-mails or telephones so as not to alert the abductors that we were seeking help," he said.
"We then decided to lure them with the ransom as after the few calls the abductors made, we knew who these people were and their locations.
"Our objectives were to get my child, nab the criminals and retrieve the ransom and we succeeded," Gupta said. The kidnappers had threatened to kill their victim.
Noida police chief R. K. S. Rathore lauded Gupta's role in the rescue.
"His razor-sharp planning, cool temperament and technology helped us in our job," Rathore said.