E-Kantipur

KATHMANDU, SEP 10 -

The cases of abduction reportedly for ransom have considerably gone up in the Valley of late.

However, a large number of kidnap cases registered at the police have turned out to be fake and orchestrated by the reported victims themselves. Police record on kidnap cases in the Kathmandu Valley for the last two years shows more than half of such cases related to fake abduction.

Of the total 43 kidnapping cases that took place in the Valley in years 2009/10 and 2010/11, 25 were found fake. Among 29 kidnap cases that were in police’s acknowledgement in the year 2009/10, 16 were masterminded by the reported victims themselves while nine out of 14 reported abduction cases were found fake in year 2010/11.

Police say the formulation of an act on abduction and human trafficking four years ago and the subsequent crackdown on abduction rackets led to considerable decline in the number of genuine abduction cases.

“Most of the recent abduction cases have been found fake. We initiate investigation into abduction cases but after days and weeks of toil and tracing, they turn out that the kidnapper and the kidnapped is the same person,” says DSP Hridaya Thapa at the Metropolitan Police Crime Division.

Binamra Bhatta, a student at Golden Gate College, was abducted on December 4, 2009. After a police rescue operation,

it was found that Bhatta was held captive by nobody else but himself. He had faked the abduction to fleece money from his family.

“Fake abductions are of various kinds,” says Thapa. “Students in desperate need of money faking their kidnapping with the help of friends, financially broke businessmen trying to con their own family for their rescue and fake kidnapping to help escape from paying financial dues are among the most common.”

Police say some families, whose wards are on the run with lovers, register complaints saying their wards have been abducted. This, they think, will accelerate police into returning their wards. Of the 43 cases registered in the last two years, five have been genuine abductions. While a large chunk of it is made up by fake cases, other kidnapping cases are designed to settle monetary disputes. “Since police are not entitled to probe cases of manual business dealings, people hire goons and abducMaoist fuss over keys handover a drama: NC chieft their partners instead of  seeking legal remedy court,” adds Thapa.

Posted on: 2011-09-10 09:25

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