Pune: 14-yr-old boy kidnapped for Rs 30 lakh ransom, rescued; 3 persons arrested

Police have arrested three persons for allegedly kidnapping a 14yearold boy and demanding a ransom of Rs 30 lakh from his family in Maharashtras Pune district officials told news agency PTIThe boy has been rescued by the police they saidAccording to the police the boy who is the son of a scrap dealer was kidnapped by three persons on Tuesday morning from Tathawade area of the adjoining PimpriChinchwad township reported PTIOn receiving a complaint from the family a team was formed and during investigation it was revealed the kidnappers had taken the boy to Saswad The kidnappers earlier called a relative of the boy and demanded Rs 30 lakh and threatened to kill him if the ransom money was not paid an official from the PimpriChinchwad crime branch told PTIAfter tracing the location of the kidnappers a police team was dispatched The kidnappers were arrested from Saswad and the boy was rescued from their clutches he saidAccording to PTI the accused were identified by the police as Tejan Lokhande Arjun Rathod and Vikas MhaskeThe trio knew that the boys father was financially welloff and targeted him for quick money the police told PTIThe accused wanted to open a hotel and for that they needed money This led them to plan the kidnapping another police official told PTIMeanwhile a 40yearold man allegedly killed his brotherinlaw and later committed suicide by hanging on Tuesday in Pune city of Maharashtra police told PTIAccording to PTI a domestic dispute is suspected to be the trigger behind the incident which occurred in Baner areaThe accused Hemant Kajale hit Dhananjay Sadekar 38 in the head with an iron rod resulting in the latters death Kajale then allegedly hanged himself an official said quoting the complaint lodged by Sadekars wife reported PTIA murder case has been registered and further investigation is on he addedEarlier a convict serving death sentence in a 2016 case of rape and murder of a minor girl at Kopardi in Maharashtra was found hanging in his cell at the Yerwada Central Jail in Pune on Sunday morning police said reported PTIInitial findings suggest it to be a case of suicide they said adding the convict identified as Jitendra Babulal Shinde 32 was undergoing psychiatric treatment reported PTIThe man appeared to have used towel strips to hang himself from an iron bar above the door of his cell in the jail a police official saidAccording to the police a prison guard found Shinde hanging in his cell and alerted the other guardsThe prisoner was taken for a medical examination where he was declared dead an official from Yerawada police station saidIn 2017 a sessions court in Ahmednagar district sentenced three men including Shinde to death for the rape and murder of a 15yearold girl in Kopardi village of the district in 2016The victim who belonged to the Maratha community was found murdered after being raped on July 13 2016 in Kopardi villageThe accused had inflicted injuries all over her body and broken her limbs before throttling her police earlier saidWith inputs from PTI