03 September,2023 07:13 PM IST | Nashik | mid-day online correspondent
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A 51-year-old builder was allegedly kidnapped by unidentified persons from outside his house in Maharashtra's Nashik city, police said on Sunday, reported the PTI.
Gajra Group chairman Hemant Madanlal Parakh was later let off by the kidnappers and was brought home by the police from neighbouring Gujarat on Sunday morning, an official said, as per the PTI.
Unidentified persons on two-wheelers and a car accosted Parakh outside his house in the Indiranagar area around 9.30 pm on Saturday, he said, the news agency reported on Sunday.
They allegedly forced him to get into the car and took him away, the official said.
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The incident was captured by the CCTV cameras in the area and senior police officials, including police commissioner Ankush Shinde, reached the scene, he said.
Parakh contacted his family members in the early hours of the day, following which the police went to Gujarat's Navsari and brought him back, the official said.
A case has been registered against unidentified persons with Indiranagar police and further investigations are on.
Maharashtra Food and Civil Supplies Minister Chhagan Bhujbal met Parakh at his house on Sunday.
Meanwhile, in an another incident, an angadia (traditional money courier) was allegedly robbed at gunpoint by five persons who decamped with diamonds worth Rs 5.5 crore while they were being loaded into a van in Gujarat's Surat city, police said on Sunday. The incident took place on Saturday morning and the police apprehended the gang of robbers after a three-hour chase all the way to neighbouring Valsad district, an official said, according to the PTI.
"Diamonds worth around Rs 5.5 crore were looted from an angadia and five persons have been nabbed in this connection," Deputy Commissioner of Police Bhakti Thakar said, reported the PTI.
The accused decamped with five bags containing diamonds belonging to two angadia pedhis, she said.
An angadia pedhi is a traditional courier agency that delivers cash and valuables from one client to another.
CCTV footage of the heist showed robbers in a vehicle tailing a car that was transporting the bags with valuables in Sarthana locality of the city, the official said.
They then approached the angadia when he was loading the bags into a van and robbed him at gunpoint, she said.
Teams from the local police and crime branch chased the gang's vehicle and managed to nab them in neighbouring Valsad district, Thakar said.
According to the victim, four to five persons armed with revolvers and machetes jumped out of a vehicle, threatened him and vandalised the car before fleeing with the bags.
(with PTI inputs)
