AHMEDABAD: Two people, allegedly impersonating Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) officers, reportedly kidnapped and robbed a person from Gujarat who had smuggled two gold capsules price Rs 50 lakh into India from
Dubai, as per the police on Saturday.
The complainant, Danish Sheikh, disclosed that he traveled to Dubai on October 9 on the request of an acquaintance in Vadodara, who supplied tickets and lodging, paying him Rs 20,000 for smuggling gold, hid in his rectum, again into the nation.
Upon touchdown at Ahmedabad airport on October 28, Sheikh accomplished immigration formalities and headed to the airport’s car parking zone, the place a van despatched by his Vadodara acquaintance awaited. As he was about to board the van, two males claiming to be ATS officers approached, asserting data of the smuggled gold. They coerced Sheikh to accompany them to the ATS workplace.
The accused, driving the van with Sheikh and the opposite two occupants, diverted to an remoted location. There, they instructed Sheikh to switch to a automobile, leaving the others behind. The automobile took him to a high-rise constructing, the place he was assaulted on the tenth flooring. Compelled to retrieve the hid gold capsules, weighing 850 gm and valued at Rs 50 lakh, Sheikh was additionally relieved of some money. Subsequently, he was transported to a bus station in an autorickshaw and left there.
An FIR has been filed towards unidentified people below related sections of the Indian Penal Code, together with voluntarily inflicting damage throughout theft, abduction, prison intimidation, and personating a public servant. The delay in reporting the incident was attributed to the complainant’s concern, and investigations are ongoing, acknowledged Police Sub-Inspector R H Pandav.
(With company inputs)