Five arrested in Snapdeal girl abduction case

Ghaziabad Police on Monday arrested five men in the abduction of a Snapdeal employee Dipti Sharma who went missing on her way to Vaishali metro station last week.

Sources said the conspiracy was hatched bysomeone known to the girl and was executed with the help of a well-known criminal Devendra. The police are also suspecting ‘unrequited love’ as a motive behind the abduction.

Earlier, the police said even family members could have been involved in the kidnapping. The victim had also told the police that the abductors told her that they were taking her to someone she knew.

On February 10, on her way from Vaishali Metro station, Dipti was abducted by four men in an autorickshaw. The abductors then blindfolded her, made her walk and took her to a sugarcane field before dropping the victim off at a railway station from where she took a train back home.

A car used in the commission of the crime has also been purportedly recovered, said sources.