INDIAN MAN ARRESTED FOR KIDNAPPING STUDENTS, FALSELY BLAMES NIGERIAN GANG
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By Aishat Momoh. O.
A 43-year-old Indian national, Sumit Sood, has been arrested for allegedly abducting three students from Bishop Cotton School in Shimla district, Himachal Pradesh, and attempting to frame an imaginary Nigerian gang for the crime.
According to The Indian Express, police said Sood made ransom calls to the victims’ parents through a virtual number, claiming he had been coerced by “a gang of Nigerian citizens” to demand payment in Bitcoin. He warned the parents not to inform anyone, especially the school management, threatening harm to both the children and himself if they did.
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Shimla Superintendent of Police, Sanjeev Gandhi, disclosed that the suspect used the TextMe app to make the calls and had conducted multiple online searches to monitor news coverage of the abduction. When Sood learnt that reports of the missing students had surfaced on Saturday evening, he allegedly planned to move them from his remote Kokunala village home to Chandigarh.
Police investigations revealed that before committing the crime, Sood stole his father’s licensed pistol, avoided CCTV cameras by using an alternative route, and waited in his car with a fake number plate for more than four hours near the school gate. He reportedly even urinated into a bottle to avoid leaving his vehicle.
Sood is said to have blindfolded the students and taken them to his three-storey house in Kokunala, which was unoccupied at the time. He later led police to various locations used during the abduction, including the site where he changed his car’s registration plate.
He appeared in court on Wednesday following his arrest.
In a separate case last month, The Times of India reported that Nigerian national Frank Nandi, 39, accused officers of the Worli unit of Mumbai’s Anti-Narcotics Cell of planting drugs on him. Police, however, maintained that Nandi was caught following a tip-off, with 200 grams of cocaine allegedly recovered from his bag during a search in the Malad area.
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