New Delhi: A month after a Class 12 student was murdered in the capital in February, the police have released the audio tape of the ransom call made by kidnappers after abducting Ankit Gupta.
According to the police, calls were made after the boy was killed by the kidnappers. The kidnappers threatened Ankit's father by demanding one crore rupees.
The father told the kidnappers that he can only pay 20 lakh and then he was heard fixing a place to make the exchange. Two persons, including a juvenile have been arrested for Ankit's murder.
It is also learnt that the juvenile had studeied with Ankit till Class 7. The accused told the police that they got the idea about the kidnapping from the TV serial Crime Patrol.
The police have said that they will move an application to treat the juvenile as an adult.
Ankit was kidnapped on February 11 from outside his house in Babarpura area of Northeast Delhi and within 24 hours his family received a phone call from the abductors demanding a ransom of Rs 1 crore for his safe release.
The family informed the matter to the police and negotiated the ransom at Rs 20 lakh, keeping police in loop. The abductors kept misleading the family and the police for days and later stopped calling.
On March 20, the police concluded that Ankit was killed after some of the details about the boy matched with that of a body found at a village under UPs Gautam Budh Nagar district more than one month back. It later emerged that Ankit was murdered by the abductors on February 13, the official said.
With PTI Inputs.
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