Overview
- The teenager was allegedly forced at gunpoint into a black car around 1 pm in Kapurhol, Bhor tehsil, while returning home on a two-wheeler.
- Police spotted the suspect vehicle and a chase ended in sugarcane fields near Nasrapur, where the car got stuck and the boy was recovered unharmed.
- Two suspects — Akshay Laxman Ingulkar and Akshay Dattatraya Bhalerao of Manjari-Hadapsar — were arrested, while three others, including Pankaj Walhekar and Ganesh Dhawade, remain at large.
- Teams from Jejuri, Nira outpost, and Saswad deployed nakabandi, launched combing operations, and worked with villagers through the Gram Suraksha Yantrana to track the vehicle.
- A case has been registered under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Arms Act; reports differ on the victim’s age (17 or 18), and India Today cites an alleged Rs 5 crore ransom plan that other accounts have not detailed.