Kidnapped son of Ghaziabad industrialist returns

GHAZIABAD: The 8-year-old son of a Ghaziabad-based industrialist, Mukul Jain, kidnapped in a Maruti car at about 7.55 pm on Friday evening returned mysteriously to his Rajinder Nagar home at 11.30 pm on Saturday.
While the family claimed they had not paid any ransom, police officials were skeptical about the claimed details of the boy's return. Mukul, a class III student, said, "The kidnappers said they had released me because they kidnapped me by mistake.They wanted to kidnap someone else.''
He added, "They dropped me at East Delhi Mall in Kaushambi at about 9.30 in the night.''
However, he was not clear about how he reached his home 10 kms away. While initially he said the police had brought him home, he later claimed his parents had arrived at the mall with the police.
Meanwhile, Ghaziabad district police chief, L Ravi Kumar, said, "Obviously, we are not being given the complete story. We think this is a case of kidnapping by a business partner of the boy's father Abhay Jain over some dispute.''
Meanwhile, Mukul told reporters the kidnappers, who whisked him away from just outside his house, drove him in the car for about two hours.
He said, "They talked about going to Faridabad. I do not know if they went there. But I was taken to a computer laboratory.''
He said the kidnappers kept him in the room throughout Saturday. In the night, he heard the kidnappers say they had picked up the wrong boy. Then, they drove him to the mall, and left him near the cinema ticket counter.
Police are still investigating the matter.lalit.kumar@timesgroup.com