Three nabbed in student’s kidnapping case

NAGPUR: Pachpaoli police and zone III of crime branch cracked the kidnapping and extortion case of standard XII student, Mayur Deulkar (17) in five days. The cops have made three arrests.
While two of the accused were nabbed from Mumbai, a student of second year engineering was arrested from the city. Mayur, who was lured with WhatsApp and Facebook messages received from an unknown woman, was kidnapped on February 27.
All the three accused— Suraj Krishnapurkar (26), a waiter in bar at Badlapur, Matin Shiekh (21), who works in private firm at Thane, and Raj Khanke (19), a resident of Godhni — originally hail from Babupeth in Chandrapur.
Pachpaoli cops produced the accused before court which remanded them to police custody till Thursday.
Cops said, mastermind Suraj was in debt Rs40,000. Suraj’s uncle was Mayur’s neighbour in Tukaram Nagar. He collected all the information about Mayur’s father Ashok. He had assumed that Ashok could pay the ransom amount of Rs1.20lakh and hence, plotted the plan.
On February 13, Matin bought a SIM card and Suraj created fake accounts on social media in the name of Kajal Bavne and approached Mayur. Eight days before the incident, Suraj came to Nagpur and stayed at a lodge. He kept chatting with Mayur and summoned Matin according to the plan. Later, the duo told Raj to bring his bike. Matin and Raj abducted Mayur from Sevasadan T-point in Civil Lines, added cops.
Suraj, having past record in Chandrapur, used Mayur’s cell phone number to ask Ashok to bring money near VCA Square. The accused kept roaming in different parts of city and were caught in one of the CCTV cameras. Mayur somehow escaped and returned home from Jhingabai Takli within six hours.
Suraj and Matin had fled to Mumbai post the failed abduction attempt. Cops traced their location through phone calls made from Mayur’s number and nabbed the accused.