ghaziabad in less than 24 hours ghaziabad police cracked the kidnapping case of a threeyearold boy and rescued him from the clutches of two youths the accused including a neighbour of the child were arrested on wednesday afternoon after a brief exchange of fire in which one of them sustained a gunshot woundthe two sunny 22 the neighbour and his accomplice ramsaran jatav 26 kidnapped atharv chauhan the son of a real estate consultant for a ransom of rs 20 lakh according to police sunny was known to the boys family for the past five years and he would often borrow money from the minors father both the accused worked as daily wagers in the areaatharv in fact went missing from his house in the behrampur area of vijay nagar around 6pm on tuesday ghaziabad ssp muniraj g said that the family alerted the cops around 7pm immediately we formed three teams to trace the child after lodging an fir one of the teams got the cctv footage of the area in which the child was seen going with a manon wednesday morning the family members of the child identified the youth in the footage as sunny we immediately raided his house but he was absconding the ssp said around 1pm the accused made a whatsapp call to neeraj the boys uncle and demanded rs 20 lakh for his release one of our teams present in the boys house soon put the mobile phone number on technical surveillance the ssp said the cops soon traced the location of the accused in the pushta area near the hindon river a team under iraj raja sp rural who holds the additional charge of sp city was sent to nab the criminals muniraj saidwithin 2030 minutes the police tracked down the accused who were on a bike some 50 cops surrounded the accused from all directions jatav was riding the bike while sunny was the pillion rider and atharv was seated between them raja saidhowever instead of stopping jatav tried to speed away while sunny fired at the police team head constable devpratap singh received injuries to his right shoulder our men also retaliated and sunny also sustained a gunshot injury the sp rural saidboth the injured policeman and the accused are being treated at a hospital police said during interrogation the accused told us that sunny had kidnapped atharv and handed him over to jatav near the lal kuan area jatav took the child to etah that night only in a private bus on wednesday morning sunny called up jatav and asked him to return to ghaziabad along with the boy the sp said nitin chauhan the boys father said on wednesday that the accused did not give his son any proper food to eat they gave him chips and cold drinks we will take him to a psychiatrist soon as he is very scared he saidthe accused were booked under sections 364 kidnapping or abducting in order to murder