Mastermind of the plot was the son of an award-winning school teacher Noida police have arrested 10 persons,including the son of an award winning school teacher and a pilot,in connection with the kidnapping of the owner of a prominent electronics firm on September 21,police said on Wednesday. Police also said Rs 4.5 crore of the Rs 5-crore ransom amount was recovered from the accused persons on Tuesday. The development comes 18 days after Kapil Gupta,owner of Delta Electronics,was released by his abductors. His wife,Sonia,had paid the ransom without informing the police. The arrested persons,apprehended from Meerut,have been identified as Anshul Babra,Vinay Kumar,Sandeep Kumar,Sandeep Rathi,Kapil,Deepak,Somvir,Anshul,Pushpendra and Sanjeev. Police said the mastermind of the kidnapping plot was Anshul Babra,a resident of Shraddha Puri in Meerut,the son of an award-winning school teacher. Anshuls father,Mahendra Singh Babra,was the recipient of the 2009 Rajya Shikshak Puruskar. Another arrested person,Vinay Kumar,is a trained pilot, an official said. The arrests took place after police got a tip-off on October that the accused were in Meerut. On October 11,police raided the home of Vinay Kumar,the pilot,in Dabthua village in Meerut and arrested him. At his home,we found the ransom money,which was kept in bags. Some arms and ammunition was also recovered from his possession, an officer said. When questioned,Kumar revealed that Anshul Babra had planned the kidnapping. He was arrested from his house in Shraddhapur Phase II. Kapil Gupta was kidnapped while driving home via DND flyover on September 21. Without informing the police,Guptas wife Sonia paid the Rs 5-crore ransom at Daurala,near the Meerut bypass,on September 23. Gupta returned home on September 24,after which the police launched a detailed investigation. Jyoti Narayan,Senior Superintendent of Police,Gautam Budh Nagar,said,The kidnappers took Gupta to Greater Noida and kept him there. We are looking into certain claims that the abductors were being informed of police movements. We are also trying to find out if these were the same people who abducted Saurabh Jain,a chartered accountant with the same company,for a Rs 25-lakh ransom in February 2010. A case under Section 364(A) (kidnapping for ransom) has been registered against the accused in the Sector 20 police station.
