thane less than 10 hours after he was abducted on friday noon jitendra nandlal gupta 24 a mobile shop owner was rescued by the thane police albeit in a drugged and shaken state all of guptas six abductors have been arrested while a hunt is on to trace the victims cousin who plotted the kidnapping to pocket the rs 15lakh ransomit was a routine nakabandi by the kapurbawdi police in the tikujiniwadi area on friday night that proved providential for gupta who was lying blindfolded tied up and gagged inside an indicaas the police flashlights fell on the driver and the constable demanded to check the interiors of the vehicle panic gripped them all leading to suspicion they were all young boys huddled inside the small car we asked them to pull over their expression gave the boys away and we arrested them an official from the kapurbawdi police station told toifor gupta however the joy of being free was lost when he heard from the young kidnappers that the real brain behind the entire conspiracy was his maternal cousin girija shankar gupta 24it was girija shankar who hired the six men to kidnap jitendra and demand rs 15 lakh as ransom money the former was aware that jitendra had made some money when he sold off a flat a year ago for rs 27 lakh girija shankar also assured his men that no one would suspect him as he was a family member and that he would alert them if the abduction was reported to the police the official saidjitendra spoke to toi about the kidnapping and said he was happy that it ended so soon it was a wellrehearsed plot in fact four days before they bundled me into their car on friday noon the boys would regularly frequent my shop and tell me that they were also in the same business but were closing down their shop they told me that they were selling their mobiles at half the market price and urged me to come with them i had resisted them for many days he said on friday however jitendra was persuaded to accompany them to their shop and take one look at the phones they wanted to sell him i did not suspect anything and gave in once i sat in the car they covered my head and gagged me one of them held my hands tightly all attempts to free myself failed as i was overpowered by five of them inside the car jitendra said once inside he was injected more than thrice to keep him silent i faintly remember that they took me to some jungle spot where they went on a drinking binge after one injection failed to get the desired result they stabbed the needle twice into me so that i lose consciousness jitendra saidfate however chose otherwise and before the family could be informed to pay the ransom cops rescued jitendra those arrested are ashok hiralal singh ajay hiralal singh