The four later panicked and killed the sufferer, 18-yr-antique Vishal Gautam. They dumped his body inside the Gomti River in Sitapur.

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Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Rahul Raj said the 4 accused have been arrested and identified as Dheeraj Maurya, Rajesh Gautam, Mukesh Rawat, and Ashish Rawat — all of their forties.

The four confessed to the crime throughout interrogation.

The DCP said that SDRF teams had been deployed to look the frame.

According to the respectable, Maurya owns a snack-production factory in Maal and lives in Dubbagga. He is a neighbour of the sufferer, Vishal Gautam, whose circle of relatives is into actual estate commercial enterprise.

The other three accused additionally have small commercial enterprise units.

Giving info of the case, DCP Raj stated that Vishal, a resident of Dubagga, went lacking at the night time of September 25. His sister, Sandhya, lodged a case with the police tomorrow in which she said that Vishal had gone to Maal earlier than his disappearance.

A crew changed into sent to the spot cited by using Sandhya and it discovered Vishal’s bike parked outside Maurya’s manufacturing unit.

In the intervening time, the own family were given the ransom call from Vishal’s telephone stressful Rs 1 crore. The caller threatened the family with dire effects if the police have been informed.

The kidnappers made some other ransom name, a couple of days later, through WhatsApp and during communique with the family, agreed to lower the ransom cash to Rs 50 lakh.

This time, police used electronic surveillance to hint the miscreants and nabbed them from Maurya’s factory,” the DCP stated.

“Maurya confessed that his factory became getting ready to closure because of heavy losses. He attempted taking a bank mortgage to revive the factory but could not get one due to the fact his credit score score changed into bad.

He then chalked out the plan to kidnap Vishal as his circle of relatives owns assets really worth crores, hoping that with the ransom, he would be capable of store his manufacturing facility,” Raj stated.

The accused also confessed that they killed Vishal by means of first injecting him with poison and then strangling him, he stated.