Six held for kidnapping businessman in Surat ANI | Updated: Jan 30, 2021 13:34 IST
Surat (Gujarat) [India], January 30 (ANI): The Surat Crime Brancharrested a gang of six persons for allegedly kidnapping a 36-year-old businessman, police said on Saturday.
According to the police, the incident happened when the businessman, a resident of Umra area, was going to the gym from his residence on Thursday morning.
The gang demanded a ransom of Rs 3 crores and they were later paid Rs 1 crore, stated the police. We rescued the victim and arrested all the accused involved. Prima Facie, it appears that the accused needed money. A probe is underway, said AK Tomar, Police Commissioner, Surat.
Seven people kidnapped for ransom in Sukkur region
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SUKKUR: As many as seven people have been kidnapped by dacoits in the region. These include four residents of Khairpur, Anwar Suhag, Raja Suhag, Yaseen Sheikh and Hanif Malik, and two of Shikarpur respectively.
Reports said the kidnappers demanded Rs8 million against the victims’ release, while the residents staged protest at the Ghouspur-Shikarpur Road against the new wave of kidnapping in the area.
Hundreds of protesters gathered on the road to demonstrate against the kidnapping of Amanullah Nindvani, Ghulam Shabir and Yaseen Jaffri. They also staged a sit-in on the Ghouspur-Shikarpur Road, which caused trouble for commuters and daily traffic.
Get Permission Threat actors behind a distributed denial-of-service campaign targeted the same set of victims again after the organizations failed to pay the initial ransom, a new report by security firm Radware finds.
The report notes the victims were first hit by the unidentified group in August or September 2020. Then, when the victims failed to pay the initial ransom demand, they were sent additional ransom extortion emails in December 2020 and January, with the threat actors demanding between five and 10 bitcoins ($160,000 and $320,000).
Soon after the victims received the second set of threatening messages, the organizations were hit with a DDoS attack that exceeded 200Gbps and lasted more than nine hours without interruption, the report notes.
Police claimed to have arrested two men allegedly involved in kidnapping for ransom a businessman on Tuesday. The suspects were arrested during a raid conducted on a tip-off in Korangi. Police said.