7 persons, including NRIs, booked on charges of kidnapping

Phagwara (Pb), Aug 28 (PTI) Police have booked sevenpersons, including two NRIs, on alleged charges of kidnapping,extortion, criminal conspiracy on a complaint of an NRI, whoalleged that they had extorted from him Rs 25 lakh bythreatening to kill him. On a complaint of Kenya-based NRI Gurmit Singh, policeregistered a case last night against these seven persons underSections 364 (kidnapping in order to murder), 386 (extortionby putting a person in fear of death or grievous hurt),120-B(criminal conspiracy) of IPC and Sections 25-27,54,59 ofArms Act. The complainant said that he did business of cars inKenya. Residents of Amritsar, Navdeep and Gurmit, who alsolived in Kenya, were his old acquaintances, police said. He alleged that both called him on July 11 this year fordiscussing the matter of jointly buying a garden, they said. He alleged that the duo made him captive in a room andstarted beating him, demanding Rs one crore for his release,police said. They threatened to kill him if he did not cough outthe amount, he told police. He then struck a deal of giving them Rs 25 lakh andinformed his family in Phagwara to give the amount to theiraccomplices. The duo sent their men to his Phagwara house on July 13who got Rs 25 lakh cash from his family and then he was thrownin front of Nairobi West hospital in critically injuredcondition, he alleged. The complainant remained in the hospital till July 21 andafter coming out of the hospital, he lodged a complaint withpolice and also reported the matter to Indian HighCommissioner there, he said. Then he came to India and lodged a complaint withKapurthala SSP Rajinder Singh after which Satnampura policebooked the seven accused, including Navdeep Singh and GurmitSingh, both from Amritsar. The accused will be arrested soon, investigating officersub-inspector Harjinder Singh said. PTI CORR VJ AYP RGAYP