A week after the family of a 28-year-old man in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, alleged that a team of policemen could not prevent their kidnappers from escaping with a ransom of Rs 30 lakh, police said the man was killed by the kidnappers last month. Sanjeet Yadav's body, however, has not yet been recovered.
Sanjeet Yadav worked as a technician in a private laboratory in Kanpur, about 90 km from the state capital, Lucknow. He was kidnapped last month. Last week, an investigation was ordered after his family staged a two-hour protest outside the office of Kanpur Police Chief Dinesh Kumar P. They alleged that a team of policemen asked them to ransom Rs 30 lakh and deliver cash to kidnappers. The family said they handed over the cash on July 13, however, the defendant managed to escape despite the strong police presence.
While a station official was suspended, police said the kidnappers were not given money. The family later said they were "pressured" to say "no money was taken from them."
Some men, who have been arrested in the kidnapping and murder case, are Sanjeet's "friends" and "former colleagues", police said Thursday.
"On June 23, the Sanjeet Yadav family filed a missing complaint. It became a first information report (FIR) on June 26. Three days later, the family received a rescue call. A special branch team of the crime and other officers were investigating the case. Some people were arrested on Thursday; they were friends of Sanjeet and had worked with him before. They are suspected to have killed him on June 26 or 27, "Dinesh Kumar P, Superintendent of Police, Kanpur he said Thursday.
"Now teams have been formed to find the body."
Sanjeet Yadav's family, clinging to the hope of finding him for more than a month, was devastated yesterday when police officers gave them news of the 28-year-old's death. The heartbreaking images showed them trying to comfort each other.
They said more than 15 rescue calls were made to the family. Her sister had told reporters last week: "Before, we had approached Aparna Gupta, an IPS officer in charge of the area, and asked her to organize the monitoring of the bag with the ransom money. She had assured us that all arrangements would be made. "
"But they made us pay the money and my brother was not released either. The police kept saying that we will get the money back even if it was turned over. But the first priority is to get his family member back. A police team was with us at all times. The kidnappers They kept talking to my father on the phone for 30 minutes before the ransom was taken. He had my father drop the bag of money from the top of an overpass on a road below. The police didn't anticipate all this? " she had asked.
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