Insurance exec was beaten and tortured by abductors

ANIL YADAV, ACP SADAR POLICE STATION, SAID THE POLICE HAVE GOT SOME CRUCIAL LEADS IN THE CASE

GURGAON: Samarth Kohli, 30, who was abducted by two armed men from Subhash Chowk near his office on Monday morning, had to spend more than 10 hours sitting on the car floor between front and rear seat with his head down.

Whenever Kohli raised his head, he was slapped and hit by pistol butts by the duo, who otherwise attacked him physically only when they consumed beer during their journey from Gurgaon to Pali via Jaipur.

Kohli works as a senior manager with AIG Insurance in Sector 48. He was abducted around 10 pm by two armed men on Monday. For the next 15 hours, the duo took him to various districts in Haryana and Rajasthan and withdrew Rs 1.65 lakh with Kohli’s cards from various ATMs.

Kohli, who was rescued on Tuesday afternoon and brought back to Gurgaon in the late hours the same day, shared the details of his harrowing journey in the presence of police officials on Wednesday afternoon.

Kohli told the police that two criminals kept him at gunpoint and did not speak with each other inside the car. They snatched his ATM cards and forced him to share the pin numbers.

While one of the them went out to carry out transactions, the other kept a watch on him inside the car. “We don’t have any enmity with you. We just want Rs 2 lakh”, they told him as they managed to get only Rs 1.65 lakh.

However, each time they consumer beer at Gurgaon, Rewari, Jaipur and Beawar in Rajasthan, they physically assaulted him. The accused also used Kohli’s cards to fill petrol at Gurgaon, Rewari and in Ajmer.

In the morning around 8 am, the accused made Kohli talk with his brother Dhruv Kohli. They forced him to tell his brother that he was going to meet a client.

After spending 10 hours in the car, Kohli was blindfolded by the accused. They offered him breakfast at Beawar, but he refused. On their way outside Jaipur, they also asked a person about the way to Udaipur but instead moved towards Ajmer. Later, when they were moving towards Pali, the criminals realized that the police were closing in on them and they dumped Kohli at Haripur along with the car.