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Add one more boy to the kidnapped list
THE LAW and order in the city has come under cloud with another kidnapping of a high school student. Interestingly, the police continue to grope in the dark, to find the whereabouts of four youth kidnapped in a span of 20 days.
THE LAW and order in the city has come under cloud with another kidnapping of a high school student. Interestingly, the police continue to grope in the dark, to find the whereabouts of four youth kidnapped in a span of 20 days.
Meanwhile, police officials at Kalyanpur police station turned down the request of the kin of kidnapped boy, to lodge an FIR in this regard.
According to information, Sachendra Singh alias Ravi (16) was kidnapped from the Panki Road in the afternoon on Sunday, when he went there to purchase Ayurvedic medicine.
The kidnapped teenager is the resident of plot no. 331 Gayatri Nagar, Gali no. 2, Old Shivli Road, Kalyanpur and after more than 24 hours of the boy going missing, the Kalyanpur police did not lodge a complaint, accused a local leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Sources said Sachendra is a high school student in RK Mission Inter College in RK Nagar and his father Dev Pal Singh is a driver of Mahanagar Bus, owned by one Santosh Awasthi.
Before being kidnapped, Sachendra was at home on Sunday along with his mother Rani Devi and uncle Narendra Singh. At 2.00 pm Rani Devi asked Sachendra to accompany her to the temple.
He refused to go, as he had to appear in a class test on Monday.
Around 3.00 pm, Sachendra left the house telling his uncle, Narendra, he was going to purchase medicine at Panki Road.
The last time relatives of Sachendra contacted him at 3.30 pm. He was reportedly with a friend Kaptan Singh, whose father is a follower at Kakadev police station.
In the night when harried parents contacted Kaptan, he said that after meeting him, Sachendra had left for home.
Ashok Singh, a local Bharatiya Janata Party leader said that the police was trying to water down the nefarious act of kidnapping from the Kalyanpur area.
He also said, “Three years back the son of Gulab Singh was kidnapped by the former’s friend, who is now serving life imprisonment. Then the body of the kidnapped youth was recovered at a near by agriculture land and the kidnapper, who was residing in the area was forcibly produced before police only then they had registered an FIR.
This incident is almost a replica of the previous one,” said the BJP leader.
Motive puzzles cops: The Nazirabad police are searching for another kidnapped boy Kanishk Sachdeva.
One thing common in all kidnappings is the background of kidnapped youth. Father of Kanishk is a truck mechanic and the rest of the three kidnapped youth were working at a merge salary of Rs 1200 pm.
The spate of kidnappings of financially not-so-well-off people has placed the police in a quandary.
Reacting over such incidents, Superintedent of Police crime Sripati Mishra said, “Yes in all the incidents victims were not financially sound.
Nevertheless, police investigations are multi-dimensional and it is too early to make any concrete comment why these youths went missing.”
