Auraiya Superintendent of Police Charu Nigam said the victim’s neighbour, Riyaz Siddiqui, had orchestrated the kidnapping of the boy, a student of class 6.
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The Auraiya police claimed to have recovered the looted silver on the basis of information provided by the two arrested policemen. The Kanpur Dehat police, which have been informed of the arrest, would initiate departmental action and proceedings for their suspension, SP Nigam said.
In what turned out to be a mock drill, the Superintendent of Police of Auraiya, Charu Nigam, disguised herself and dialled an emergency number with a fake complaint of armed robbery to test the response of the local police.