Ex-BPO man planned kidnapping, wanted money for Dubai trip: cops

After arresting three youths in connection with the kidnapping and murder of 16-year-old Adnan Patrawala, the police are now looking for two more persons—Rajan and Lalla, who they say were in the car when the teenager was abducted. “Rajan was the one who strangled Adnan with a belt after he was kidnapped by the other accused,” said a senior police official.

Investigators also said former BPO employee Sujit Nair (28)—one of the three youths arrested and charged with Adnan’s murder and kidnapping, and criminal conspiracy—masterminded the whole thing because he was unemployed and in desperate need of money to go to Dubai.
The police did not reveal too many details about Rajan and Lalla, but are questioning Nair, Ayush Bhatt and a 17-year-old boy. “We have arrested three persons and two others are still absconding. We would not like to disclose any details about the absconding accused,” said Dilip Patil, Police Inspector (Crime), Oshiwara police station.
The body of Adnan—son of a businessman from Andheri (West)—was found among bushes in Navi Mumbai on Monday, a day after he was kidnapped. The police said Adnan had gone out for dinner with his sister on Saturday evening when Ayush called him and asked if he could meet him at InOrbit Mall in Malad. Adnan agreed. At Malad, Nair, the 17-year-old boy, Rajan and Lalla were waiting with Ayush when Adnan drove up in his Skoda around 11 pm.
Kiran Sonone, Senior Police Inspector of Oshiwara police station, said Nair told interrogators that he got into the driver’s seat at Malad and the group went for a drive on the Thane-Ghodbunder Road. “Early in the morning, they dropped off Ayush at his Kandivli residence. Immediately afterwards, they pounced on Adnan and tied his hands and legs,” said another police officer. It was Sunday, 4.30 am.
While Ayush went to his house, changed and left home again, telling his parents he was going for a party, Nair and the others went to Andheri. Ayush met them there. The group then drove to Navi Mumbai. On the way, they called Adnan’s family and demanded Rs 2 crore as ransom.
Sonone said Adnan’s captors made him drink a bottle of beer after spiking the drink with sleeping pills. “Later, someone called Nair and informed him that the news about the kidnapping had been flashed on TV. And the police were after them,” said another officer. “The accused panicked and killed Adnan,” said Additional Commissioner of Police (Western Region) Archana Tyagi yesterday.
The accused then dumped the body in Nerul, abandoned the car nearby and returned to their homes. The police have got the preliminary post-mortem report and the cause of Adnan’s death has been mentioned as strangulation.
Ruling out the possibility of any woman’s involvement in the incident, zonal Deputy Commissioner of Police V K Chaube said: “Adnan might have been in contact with some girl, but no involvement of any girl has come up during our investigations. All the talk about someone called Angel in the case is bogus.”
MUMBAI: During interrogation on Monday night and Tuesday morning, Sujit Nair told the police that his mother, who is a nurse and lives in Kerala, had recently returned from Dubai. “Nair told us that he wanted to go to Dubai and needed money. He was the one who plotted the kidnapping and involved the other boys,” Kiran Sonone, Senior Police Inspector with Oshiwara police station, said. The police said Nair was without work for the past six months after he lost his job at a BPO in Malad. Since then, he had been borrowing from his parents, who stopped sending money a couple of months ago. A police officer said Nair had not cleared his credit card dues running into thousands of rupees. “He was not even able to pay the minimum amount,” the officer said, adding, “Nair has admitted that he masterminded the kidnapping.”
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New angle emerges in Adnan murder case

Mumbai is in shock after the kidnapping and murder of 16 year old Adnan Patrawala allegedly by young men who befriended him through a social networking website.Three of the alleged killers are in custody and the Mumbai police is looking for two more suspects.Police sources had first said Adnan was kidnapped and murdered by three friends Sujit Nair, Ayush Bhat and Khimesh Ambavat, who he met on the social networking site Orkut about six months ago.However, others investigating the case now claim there is no Orkut connection and that Adnan became friends with the three at a gaming centre in the Mumbai suburb of Malad six months ago and the Orkut exchanges came later.Though, the Orkut angle hasn't been ruled out. The search is still on for a fourth suspect who was chatting to Adnan on Orkut under the name of Angel, most likely a fake ID.On Saturday evening when Adnan disappeared, he had received several messages from Angel suggesting they meet up. What the police are clear about is the sequence of events.Brainchild behind kidnappingPolice say the brainchild behind the kidnapping was the oldest of the group, 28-year old Sujit Nair, a former BPO employee who had been out of a job for nearly a year.Nair had planned to flee to Dubai on Monday after getting the ransom. But police claim that when the boys found out the news had been flashed across the media they got scared.Also they heard rumours that the investigations into the kidnapping may be handed over to the CBI. So on Sunday night they gave Adnan an alcoholic drink heavily laced with sleeping pills and strangled him inside his car.But the father of one of the accused 18-year old Ayush Bhat a college student says, his son has been framed. He says Ayush was home on Saturday when Adnan disappeared.''My son is cooperating with the police. The police had come to our residence on Sunday with two people called Adil and Aafreen and since then my son has been cooperating. I don't know why Ayush has been booked in the case,'' said Arun Bhat, father of the accused.The incident has once again put focus on the social networking sites and whether there is a need for greater safeguards on the Internet.