Kidnapped H’bad IT couple’s son back home

HYDERABAD: The kidnap saga of three-and-half-year-old Rohit Reddy ended on a happy note with locals of Tekulapalli village in Khammam district discovering the boy outside a temple.

The boy, who was running a high temperature and looked exhausted, had been kidnapped on Tuesday from a school playground in Kondapur. Both of Rohit’s parents are employed in the IT industry.

While father G Ravinder Reddy is a project manager with Cognizant, mother Lalasa is a project leader with city-based Satyam Computers.

According to other children playing with Rohit, the kidnappers came in a black Toyota Qualis. The kidnappers were apparently panicked after the incident hogged media attention and the police launched a massive manhunt.

Two kidnappers, who were in a Tata Indica, reportedly left the boy near a temple telling locals that they would return after fixing a flat tyre.

Ravinder, an engineering student who recognised Rohit from the pictures flashed on TV, took him first to a local doctor, and then called up the boy’s parents informing them he was found. Later he took Rohit to the police.

Though the boy returned unharmed, it nevertheless exposes the vulnerability of people employed in the IT sector which has become a soft target for miscreants.