The abduction of 14-year-old Keerthi vasan from outside his school in
Mugapper happened on the day the boy's father Ramesh, an affluent
businessman involved in mining, dredging, textiles and many other things,
had lowered his guard.
About three months ago when Ramesh received a threat call that his son would
be kidnapped, he gave an oral complaint to the police, who checked the
caller's number and found the address to be fake. However, Ramesh took up
steps to protect his family by installing security cameras and putting up an
electric wire fence around his house in Anna Nagar.
He also sent a couple of men in his employ in the car along with Keerthi
vasan whenever he went out. But on Monday, those guards were assigned some
other work and the driver was the lone person in the Tavera, besides the
boy. So it became easy for the abductors to overpower the driver by throwing
colour powder on his face, before driving away the Tavera.
From the manner in which the kidnappers later spoke to Ramesh over phone, it
seemed that he knew them.
The kidnappers first called him and demanded a ransom of Rs 4 crore without
telling him that his son was in their custody. When Ramesh mocked at them,
they revealed that his son has been abducted and warned him not to go to the
police.
Meanwhile, the car driver, Govinda Rajan, informed Keerthi vasan's mother
about the kidnap. She straight away rushed to the SBOA School in Anna Nagar,
where her 12- year-old daughter Samitha is studying to bring her home.
The kidnappers abandoned the Tavera near Paadi and moved to another car.
Based on the calls made by them, police tracked their movement through cell
phone towers and found out that they were only driving through places like
Padi, Villivakkam, Mylapore and Anna Nagar.
After a complaint was filed with the police, the Chennai Police Commissioner
Rajendran formed special teams and assigned them different jobs like
surveillance through cell phone towers and monitoring the vehicles on road.
"We did not even leave milk vans or water tankers to go past without a
check," the police said. Even a slew of armed plainclothesmen were on the
roads, keeping a watch over vehicles and prepared to shoot if the culprits
tried to escape.
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