By IANS
New Delhi : Delhi Police Tuesday rescued a Gujarati businessman from a Gurgaon house a week after he was abducted from Delhi airport and arrested three people, including his cousin.
Raj Bhai Himat Ram Malvi was rescued from a flat in Gurgaon. Crime branch sleuths had been searching for him for a week and conducted searches in Delhi, Gurgaon, Meerut, Gajrola, Noida and other parts of national capital region.
Malvi, 32, owner of H.K. Malvi Industries, Ahmedabad, is a manufacturer of instruments used for making gold jewellery.
Police arrested his first cousin Sandeep Parmar, 23, Mukul Yadav, 22 (both call centre employees) and Sandeep Singh 23, an unemployed youth from Gurgaon.
Yadav is the son of a cloth merchant in Surat, and Singh the son of a retired army officer. The three were living in Gurgaon.
According to police, Parmar had a previous enmity with Malvi. He passed on important information about him, including his telephone numbers and other details, to his friends and they hatched a conspiracy to kidnap the businessman.
After the abduction, the kidnappers posed as members of a Pathan gang from Dubai and called the family member of Malvi at odd hours, between 2 a.m. to 4 a.m., and used his mobile phone to make calls from different locations to avoid detection, police said.
They had made a ransom demand of Rs.15 million.
Earlier in June, Malvi was contacted by the trio who posed as businessmen from Dubai interested in buying equipment for Middle East countries.
They also enticed him to come to Delhi and sent him a Ahmedabad-Delhi air ticket. When Malvi arrived at Delhi airport on June 25, the kidnappers came to receive him and whisked him away.