Cafe proprietor in Vikash Yadav case was arrested for kidnapping, acquitted

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The west Delhi-based cafe proprietor, who accused former R&AW officer Vikash Yadav of abduction and assault final yr, was arrested for kidnapping a businessman in 2013, a case by which he was acquitted later for lack of proof.

Vikash Yadav. (Reuters)

Police mentioned on Sunday that his antecedents had been being checked.

Yadav was arrested in December final yr and got here out on bail in April. He’s now on the FBI’s (America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation) most wished listing and has been charged with plotting an assault towards pro-Khalistan chief Gurpatwant Singh Pannun within the US.

Whereas investigating, police mentioned they discovered that the complainant within the case was additionally concerned in a kidnapping case within the Shalimar Bagh space.

HT reported on Sunday that weeks after Yadav was inducted as a everlasting officer in R&AW, he was arrested by the Delhi Police’s particular cell in December and later faraway from the division. In line with the case data accessed by HT, Yadav allegedly referred to as the cafe proprietor close to the NIA workplace in Delhi and kidnapped him in a automotive. The complainant alleged he was attacked and given some injection by the accused, who demanded cash utilizing jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi’s title.

The complainant was launched after the accused managed to take ₹50,000 from him. An FIR was lodged and Yadav and his affiliate had been held.

Police have now discovered that in December 2013, the cafe proprietor alongside together with his 4 mates together with a girl, had been accused of kidnapping a businessman and extorting ₹2 crore. HT reported the case in January 2014.

The case made the headlines because the accused, who had been identified to the businessman, additionally staged their very own kidnapping and the plan was discovered to have been hatched by the businessman’s girlfriend. Police mentioned the accused had been all arrested in January that yr and booked for kidnapping.

In line with the police, the businessman was at his visitor home in west Delhi when a gaggle of males, who posed as members of the particular cell, barged into his home and fed him an unknown intoxicant. Police mentioned the businessman was taken to Najafgarh the place he was allegedly crushed up and the accused demanded ₹2 crore.

“The victim was made to call his family and demand cash. The accused made him sign multiple cheques. They later dropped him near a road as they were assured of payment,” mentioned an officer.

In April this yr, police mentioned the cafe proprietor and his aides had been all acquitted within the case as sufficient proof couldn’t be gathered and the sufferer couldn’t establish the accused.