Adobe India CEO Naresh Gupta's son was kidnapped by two unidentified youth from outside his house on Monday morning.
Updated at 1.56 am, Tuesday
NEW DELHI: The three-year-old son of Naresh Gupta, CEO of Adobe India, was kidnapped from outside his NOIDA house on Monday morning.
Anant was snatched by two men on a motorcycle from Sector 15A, considered the most posh in NOIDA, a satellite township of Delhi, while he was waiting for his Lotus Valley school bus with his maid.
Anant is a pre-nursery student of the school located in Sector 125. His sister, Kavita, studies in the same school.
Police have no clue to the identity of the kidnappers. The number plate of the motorcycle was covered with cloth and no one saw their faces. “As of now no ransom call has been received,” said Narendra Bahadur Singh, inspector general of police, Meerut range. “We have dispatched a team of the special task force to assist the local police.”
Police are questioning the maidservant. An Uttar Pradesh home department spokesman in Lucknow said that six special operations group teams have been created to trace the boy.
Gupta’s residence is supposed to be well guarded. Besides guards at each of the entries to the sector, there were two private guards stationed outside the house. The house itself is located right next to the Sector 15A club, where two or three uniformed guards are present at any given time of day. In addition, it faces a shopping arcade that teems with customers in the morning. But none of these people were able to save the child.
Gupta was in the US on Monday morning and called the family when he reached Hong Kong in the afternoon.
He was scheduled to return home late on Monday night, friends of the family said. “The family has some suspicions and has given some names to the police,” they said. “But as of now no ransom calls have been made. They think the calls will come on Naresh’s cell or once he is back in the city.”
Meanwhile, other residents are blaming lax security: “Though we are supposed to have foolproof security and the sector is guarded, security is extremely lax.”
Members of the local residents’ welfare association conceded that security is a concern. “We have been making a series of presentations to tighten security in the sector,” said Neelam Suri, a member of the RWA.
Sector 15A is home to many influential people, ranging from retired senior bureaucrats to young corporate heads. One of Gupta’s neighbours is former Rajya Sabha member Saroj Dubey.
A retired IPS officer, who lives in the same sector, said there had been a spate of robberies in the past months, but no action was taken. Recently, the car of the manager of the club adjacent to Gupta’s house was stolen in the daytime.
Shopkeepers in the arcade opposite Gupta’s house echoed the concern. “Now we know what a farce the security is,” said a general-store owner. “Even after the abduction, nobody is being checked or questioned at the gate.”
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