Chandigarh, April 10
In an operation that was no less exciting than a Bollywood thriller, the Crime Branch of the UT police and the Kurukshetra police turned tables on the kidnappers and rescued the NRI.
Having no idea how many kidnappers had kept the NRI hostage and how many weapons they possessed, 10 UT policemen reached the farmhouse in Kurukshetra at around 1.20 pm.
In hiding outside the farmhouse spread over many acres, the UT police co-ordinated with the Krurukshetra police and asked it to provide additional force for the operation.
As the UT police team waited for the Haryana Police, it intercepted the Swift Dezire car heading out of the farmhouse. Nitin, one of the accused, was on his way to get food for the kidnappers. He was taken into custody and questioned about his accomplices and their plan. Nitin gave wrong information to the police and said three persons were inside the farmhouse while they were actually five in number.
Just as the police team of the UT and the Haryana Police advanced towards the farmhouse, one of the kidnappers, Pradeep Malik, opened fire from inside the room where the hostage was kept.
“There was only one way to enter the farmhouse and they saw our vehicles at some distance. They fired three shots and after a brief silence, we too fired shots into the air. We apprehended three accused guarding the place after a chase. The other two accused fled when they got to know that their accomplices had been arrested. They were also nabbed after a chase,” said the investigating officer, Inspector Amanjot Singh.
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