Abducted Tamil Nadu techie rescued in 24 hours

A software professional abducted in car while returning home around midnight after work on OMR on Wednesday, was rescued by police on Thursday night.

Hailing from Telangana and employed in HCL Technologies at Navalur on Old Mahabalipuram Road or IT highway, D. Prem Kumar, 29, was abducted by a four-member gang, which included a boy aged 19, that initially demanded a ransom of Rs 50 lakh.

The police said Prem Kumar, supposed to be back in his room at Kelambakkam by 2 am Thursday, failed to turn up and his roommate Sandeep lodged a complaint with Thamzhabur police station on Thursday morning.

On Thursday, the kidnappers called his roommate Sandeep and Prem Kumar’s mother Aruna, who stays in Khammam in Telangana and demanded Rs 50 lakh as ransom to release him. Prem’s father Devaraj and mother rushed to Chennai when they came to know about the incident.

Abductors decided to kidnap Prem Kumar because they noticed that he was trying to get a lift home from his office after work around 1 am.

He waved his hand to stop a bike rider and when he got on to the pillion, another suspect ran towards the bike and sat behind Prem Kumar and bike started moving. Before Prem Kumar realised and screamed for help, the other pillion rider used a handkerchief laced with sedatives to cover the victim’s nose. As he started swooning, they kidnapped him to a secluded place in a car.