Woman executive's abductor was in love with her: Police

Ghaziabad, Feb 15: A hardened crimil arrested for abducting a young woman executive here says he fell in love with her over a year ago and desperately wanted to marry her. Devendra, who says his heroes are Hitler and Shah Rukh Khan, lured some of his friends into the kidp drama, saying the woman’s father was a rich man and would cough up huge sums of ransom money. But the kidpping went all wrong, and police ended up arresting Devendra and his accomplices Pradeep alias Fauzi, Mohit, Faheem and Majid. A resident of Harya with 30 crimil cases against him, Devendra told police that he bought two auto-rickshaws, became an auto driver, began living in Ghaziabad for three months and conducted 150 recces to plan how to abduct executive Deepti Sar of Kavi gar here.

Ghaziabad Senior Superintendent of Police Dharmendra Yadav told the media on Monday that Devendra first had a glimpse of the “beautiful girl” with her boyfriend at the Rajiv Chowk Metro Station in Delhi in January 2015. He knew she returned home via the Vaishali station here, and so decided to strike there. On February 9, Devendra had his auto-rickshaw outside the metro station. His friend Pradeep was in another parked auto-rickshaw.

Not aware anything was amiss, Sar got into Pradeep’s auto-rickshaw. At one point of time, Devendra punctured Pradeep’s auto’s tyres after it had covered about three to four kilometres. She then boarded Devendra’s auto. (IANS)