Bengaluru: Just hours after an 11-year-old boy was kidnapped for ransom by three men on Thursday, the city police from the North division traced the boy and reunited him with his parents after arresting six people on Friday.
The police acted swiftly and traced the kidnappers even before they could make a ransom call.
With the help of CCTV footage and technical analysis, the police reached the spot in Hosur village of Nagamangala taluk where the kidnappers had held the boy captive in a farmhouse.
On Thursday evening, the boy, Inesh, had gone to the Malleswaram playground on 6th Cross to play football. While returning home around 6 pm, he was abducted by three men, who bundled him into a car, put a hood over his head and tied his hands and legs.
Later, the kidnappers took the boy to the farmhouse that belongs to Suresh in Hosur village and threatened to kill him if his father did not pay them Rs 1 crore.
When the boy did not return home late in the night, the boy's father Chetan, a cloth merchant, lodged a missing complaint at the Malleswaram police station around 9.30 pm.
DCP (North) Chethan Singh Rathor immediately formed two teams under Malleswaram and Rajagopalnagar police inspectors, which took up the investigation and arrested the kidnappers Manjunath B. (32), Manoj alias Manu (28), Vitthal (24), Shivamurthy (25), Akash Y.M. (24) and Venkatesh (50).
The main accused, Manjunath, who had a fruit shop next to the boy's house, planned the kidnapping after seeing the family's wealth, DCP Chethan said.
