Man plots son’s abduction to get ransom from in-laws

Surat: A debt-ridden man faked the abduction of his five-year-old son to extract ransom from his father-in-law to repay the loans but the police nailed his lies after rescuing the boy from a moving train in Maharasthra’s Nandurbar in the early hours of Tuesday.
Police arrested the boy’s father Tarachand Patil (32), his sister Jyoti Thakre (24), and her friend Karan Vakhode (21) after handing over the boy to his mother living in the Dindoli area.
Patil approached the Dindoli police on July 6 with a complaint that his son had gone missing from near their house. Not wanting to take any chances since the boy was young, the Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) also got involved in the investigation and search for the little one.
The cops scanned the CCTV footage of the locations near Patil’s house and nearby areas and spotted a boy who was seen alone on the road. When they got the boy and met Patil, he told the cops that he was not his son.
As cops got suspicious and grilled him, Patil tried to mislead the investigators saying that he had handed over the boy to his sister Jyoti as he was fed up with his wife’s torture. “Patil told us that he wanted to shift to his father’s house in Maharashtra but his wife was unwilling,” said Bhavesh Rojiya, deputy commissioner of police (crime branch).
Based on this information, the crime branch and Dindoli police launched a hunt for the boy. Using human and technical surveillance, police got information that the boy was with Vakode on a train near Nandurbar.
However, in the end, it was revealed that he had planned to seek a ransom from his father-in-law so that he could pay Rs 9 lakh that he had borrowed from several people over a period of time.
“According to their plan, Vakode had to take the boy to his native village in Maharashtra. From there, he would call Patil for ransom. As the boy was very close to his mother, he would have asked his wife to get money from her father to get him released. With the ransom money, Patil would clear his debt of Rs 9 lakhs,” Rojiya informed.