A car crash in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly has exposed a kidnapping attempt, resulting in the deaths of three suspected abductors. The incident occurred on the Delhi-Lucknow highway near Pardholi, where a Mahindra Bolero crashed into a parked tanker, killing three occupants. Two motorcycle riders also died in the crash.
Inside the Bolero were two kidnapped children, aged six and three years, along with four accused. While three suspects were killed, the driver survived with injuries, along with the two children. The children survived as they were thrown out of the vehicle due to the impact, suffering fractures but are stated to be stable.
The breakthrough in the case came when the six-year-old child was quizzed by UP police officers and told them about the kidnapping. Acting on this, police traced and rescued the father, who had been kept captive at a house in Faridpur, and alerted Gurugram police.
The family had gone missing Saturday night from Gurugram. The father, an autorickshaw driver, had left home to drop a passenger at a temple around 7.30pm. He took his children along. When they did not return, his wife found the autorickshaw abandoned near the temple and alerted police.
Preliminary findings suggest the accused may have been transporting the victims towards Delhi. Investigators believe the motive was that one of the killed men wanted to marry the niece of the autorickshaw driver, but he was against it, so they kidnapped the trio.
