5 held for kidnapping businessman’s son after gunfight in Greater Noida

Noida: Days after a 25-year-old man went missing, he was rescued after an encounter, following which five kidnappers were arrested. According to Greater Noida police, the accused have been identified as Mohit Gupta and Sumit Kumar, residents of Farrukhabad; Alok Yadav and Shyam Sundar from Kannauj; and Nimay Sharma, a resident of Exotica Dreamville in Noida Extension. During the cross-firing, two accused — Alok and Mohit — received bullet injuries.The other three accused were arrested during the combing of the area. The accused — who hid Shashank Gupta in different hotels in Gurgaon, Delhi and Kannauj in different cars — had demanded Rs 4 crore from the victim's father.On Sept 9, Gupta, son of stone trader Manish Gupta from Nehru Nagar (Ghaziabad), went missing. His Baleno car was found abandoned in front of a private university in the Dankaur area on Yamuna Expressway. A senior police officer said that a woman of the gang, who is currently absconding, met the youth through social media platforms.The victim and the woman knew each other for some days and the victim informed her that his father is a well-known businessman in Ghaziabad. They exchanged numbers and the woman called Shashank on Sept 9 to meet. Later, the woman and other accused kidnapped the boy. Investigation revealed that a few days back, when the suspects visited Gupta's marble office for some work, they observed that he was rich. "Following this, they planned a kidnapping to demand a Rs 4 crore ransom and involved a woman in their plan," said an officer, adding that on Sept 9, when Gupta met the woman in Indirapuram, she took him to Yamuna Expressway on the pretext of meeting a relative who would pick her up from there. "When Gupta and the woman reached Yamuna Expressway in Dankaur and she alighted from the car, the five men in another car overpowered and kidnapped him. Gupta was taken to one of the suspects' relatives' homes in Chhibramau, Kannauj," said the officer.