Thane doctor abducted, Rs 2 lakh extorted; 5 booked
Thane: The Kalwa police have registered a case against five persons for allegedly kidnapping a 35-year-old doctor from a civic hospital in Maharashtra's Thane district. The accused reportedly held him captive and extorted Rs 2 lakh after threatening to implicate him in a fake currency case, police said on Saturday.
The police on Thursday registered a case under sections 140(2) (kidnapping or abducting to murder or for ransom, etc.), 309(4) (robbery), and other relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for the incident that took place last week, an official said, news agency PTI reported.
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According to the police, the incident took place on November 8, around 9 am, when the accused, along with a man known to the doctor, reportedly abducted him from the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Hospital in Kalwa.
"One of the accused, Irfan Azgar Ali, arrived with four others, who posed as policemen. They forced the doctor into a vehicle, took him to Nashik, where they threatened to implicate him in a fake currency case. The accused took away Rs 2 lakh that the victim had with him, and demanded Rs 12 lakh from him," the official said, reports PTI.
The doctor managed to escape captivity by evening and returned to his house in Vartak Nagar, after which he submitted a written complaint, he said.
The official said that the police were probing the case and no arrests had been made so far.
Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that a Mumbai-based doctor couple filed a complaint at the Tardeo police station after their 15-year-old son went missing, leading police to launch a search for the teenager. A 15-year-old son of a Mumbai-based doctor couple was untraceable after leaving home, leading his parents to launch a frantic search and later file a kidnapping complaint, but he returned home safely after staying out overnight, police said.
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