Noida, Oct 14 (IANS) The Noida police Wednesday gunned down three men who had allegedly abducted a Greater Noida official for ransom.
The incident took place in the sector-88 area under the phase II police station of this township.

According to police, they became aware of the incident after Shiv Dutt’s family members alerted them. Dutt is the private secretary of the Chief Executive Officer of the Greater Noida Authority.

In his complaint, Dutt’s father said his son usually reached home by 7 p.m. But on Tuesday he did not come home.

Inspector S.K.S. Pratap said that at 7.45 p.m. Dutt’s father received a phone call from one of the abductors demanding the pin code of Dutt’s ATM card. Again after an hour, another phone call was received. This time the abductors demanded Rs.10 lakh as ransom.

“After receiving the complaint, we put the mobile phone under surveillance through which their location was traced in sector-88,” Pratap said. “When a police team at 5.00 a.m. Wednesday chased the abductors in a white Indica car, they opened fire at the police.

“The police also retaliated by firing. After about 10 rounds of firing three abductors were found critically injured. The victim was found dumped below the rear seat tied with a cord.”

All three men were declared dead in hospital. One of the abductors was identified as Shekhar Sharma, a resident of Dankaur town of Greater Noida. The other two were identified as Mohammad Waseem, a resident of Loni and Imran, a resident of Maujpur, Delhi.