By IANS
Mumbai : The police Monday recovered the body of 16-year-old Adnan Patrawala, the abducted son of a businessman, in an abandoned car in Navi Mumbai in the city’s northeastern suburbs. His friends have been detained for questioning.
Adnan was kidnapped from the up-market Lokhandwala Complex in suburban Mumbai’s Andheri Saturday night.
Aarif Patrawala, Adnan’s father who has an air-conditioning business, had Sunday registered a case of kidnapping with the Oshiwara police saying that the family had received a ransom call from the alleged kidnappers demanding Rs.20 million.
The police recovered Adnan’s body on the deserted beachfront Palm Beach Road that connects Vashi to Belapur in Navi Mumbai late Monday.
“We are working on some definite leads, but it is too early to say anything,” Additional Commissioner of Police (west region) Archana Tyagi told IANS Monday evening.
The police are tight-lipped about the identities of Adnan’s friends who have been detained.
Recounting the events, Tyagi said Adnan had left home Saturday at 11 p.m. after receiving a call from a friend. He called up his home later to say that he would stay over with some friends and was busy playing pool.
“But the next morning the Patrawalas received a call from an unidentified person who claimed to have abducted the boy and demanded ransom. We have detained some of the boy’s friends and interrogations are on,” the official said.
Initially, the Patrawalas had thought that the ransom call was a prank but when they received a second call Sunday noon they registered a case of kidnapping with the police.
Adnan’s body has been sent to a hospital in Navi Mumbai for post mortem, police said.
This is the second case this year in which the son of a businessman was abducted.
In April, Nadeem, a 16-year-old son of builder Parvez Lakdawala, was kidnapped from suburban Bandra. The abductors had demanded Rs.10 million as ransom for his release.
Nadeem was however released that same night from the north-central suburb of Powai. The police arrested four people, including Zara, a girl Nadeem was friendly with.
The police had shot another accused in the case, Imran Radiowala, on July 19.