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Jaipur: Two days after seven kidnappers were arrested from Omex City \u2013 an\napartment building in Bhankrota, the police revealed that the accused men had\nkept hostage several people after luring them into coming to Jaipur in the name\nof Bitcoin investment. The gang members used to change accommodation and even\nlived in hotels to avoid suspicion. They would kidnap 3-4 people and keep them\nhostage at a place until getting ransom. They would then change the accommodation.\nThe gang has allegedly confessed to committing more than 40 crime incidents including\nkidnappings and robberies over the past six months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The police had on Sunday rescued three youths belonging to Mumbai, Andhra\nPradesh and Bikaner from the gang. The youths were held captive by the gang for\na and were being tortured. The gang members had chopped off their ears and\npulled out their finger nails in order to terrorize their family members and\nget ransom from them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey have been involved in many similar kidnappings. They would bring their\nvictims to Jaipur from Mumbai on some pretext and then keep them hostage. One\nof the recent victims was one Hemant Gehlot, a resident of Kota who was\ntortured by the gang for more than 20 hours. He was released only after the\ngang was paid Rs 4.27 lakh by his family members,\u201d said a senior police officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the arrests came to light, Hemant approached Kota police on Monday and\nregistered an FIR. The gang has been active in Bhiwadi town of Alwar district\nalso and kidnapped two traders, but they had to release the traders without\ngetting the ransom fearing police action. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Those arrested were identified as Bhawani Singh, Deepak Rohila, Rahul Yadav,\nLokendra Singh, Pawan alias Baba Khati, Jitendra alias Jeetu alias Sukha Singh\nand Anupam alias Kannu Soni. All of them are residents of Haryana. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the victims, Lutfan Sheikh was called to Jaipur by the gang on the pretext of Bitcoin investment. Similarly, P Mangal Shah was also lured into coming to Jaipur in the name of investments in agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mohammed Shahzad was the friend of Lutfan and had come to Jaipur to help\nhim. But fearing that he would expose them, the gang members help him also\ncaptive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
They were planning to get ransom from the family members of the victims and\nwere torturing them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the police came to know about the kidnapped men, they surrounded the\nbuilding and searched all the flats. The seven kidnappers were arrested over 12\nhours. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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