Four get life sentence for kidnapping NRI, demanding a ransom of $700,000

New Delhi, March 20,2005

A court here Saturday sentenced four youths to life imprisonment for kidnapping an Abu Dhabi-based non-resident Indian (NRI) for ransom in 2001.

A court here Saturday sentenced four youths to life imprisonment for kidnapping an Abu Dhabi-based non-resident Indian (NRI) for ransom in 2001.

Holding Rakesh Sarhana, Santosh Shankar Acharya, Kartik Subramaniam and Vipin Chaudhary guilty of kidnapping and demanding a ransom of $700,000, Additional Sessions Judge Dinesh Dayal also imposed a fine of Rs.14,000 on each of the convicts.

Seven people had kidnapped Tikket Sidhiqui March 12, 2001 and kept him at a house at Sarvapriya Vihar in South Delhi.

The local police had freed him from captivity following a gun battle in which three of the captors, Virender Pant, Sanjay Khanna and Sunil Nathani, were killed.

"The prosecution has been able to prove the case beyond all reasonable doubts," Dayal said while pronouncing the judgement. (IANS)

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