Cops play coolies to Rescue Kid

In a 24-hour rescue drama, a Delhi police team donned several attires to nab a kidnapper

Cops play coolies to Rescue Kid

In a 24-hour rescue drama, a Delhi police team donned several attires to nab a kidnapper

The railway station where he had come to collect the ransom money from looked safe to him.
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But what the kidnapper did not know was that the coolie walking beside him, the passenger sleeping on the staircase and another one hurrying towards the train, were cops in disguise waiting to nab him.

The Delhi cops, in true filmi style, caught the kidnaper red-handed, rescuing the kidnapped son of an Old Delhi businessman, Mohammad Ajmal.

Amanullah, the one-and-a-half-year-old child, was abducted from near his father's handicrafts factory in the Walled City on Monday.
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Ajmal had left the boy with his servant Imran before going inside the factory for work.

When Mohmmad Ajmal returned from the factory, the two had disappeared.

He searched for them, but in vain. "At around midnightu00a0 on June 1 we went to the police station and lodged an FIR," Ajmal said.

Police teams fanned out to find Imran, the servant, as the boy was last seen with him. But till Tuesday, the cops had found no clue.

On Tuesday, at around 7 pm, Imran rang his employer saying that he had kidnapped his son and demanded a ransom of Rs 5 lakh. He threatened to kill the boy if the family failed to pay up.
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He said the money had to be delivered at the Ghaziabad Railway Station in a few hours. Ajmal immediately informed the police.

"We did not want to compromise the safety of the boy. So we planned to go there in disguise. We got luggage, white skull caps as worn by Muslims, coolie costumes and some plain clothes.
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The coolie costumes were arranged by the Ghaziabad Railway Police.

The Station House Officer (SHO), who led the team of ten cops, disguised himself as a passenger carrying luggage and a bottle of water," said a senior police official.

With all the men in position and Ajmal carrying the bag containing the money as a bait, the wait for the prey started.
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The cops kept waiting till 4 am but Imran did not turn up and they had to return empty-handed.

On Wednesday around 9 am, Imran rang up Ajmal again on his mobile phone. He said something had kept him "busy" and he could not come to collect the ransom.
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Imran asked Ajmal to immediately come to the Ghaziabad Railway Station. The cops got into action again.
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It was decided that the money would be delivered near the staircase connecting the footover bridge and the platform. The same police team took its position on the footover bridge, stairs and the platform.

"Cops posing as coolies pretended to be asleep on the bridge.
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Others, who posed as passengers, were at the platform waiting to catch the kidnapper if he tried to escape.
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Since it is a Muslim-dominated area, our men donned white skull caps to avoid getting noticed," said Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) Jaspal Singh.
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And according to their plan, as Imran arrived to collect the ransom, the cops posing as coolies arrested him red-handed.

But Imran had not brought the child with him. Amanullah was at Imran's friend's place at Saini village near Ghaziabad city. "We rescued the child and brought him back to Delhi.

Imran had been hired only 15 days ago without any servant verification," the DCP added.
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Imran hails from Bihar. He had met a relative of Ajmal's family on a train through whom he was employed by the businessman.