Hyderabad, A former security guard of a residential gated community here was on Monday arrested for allegedly kidnapping and murdering a five-year-old girl and demanding ₹ 20 lakh ransom from her family, police said.
The girl’s grandfather and father had received calls on October 10 evening from an unidentified person who claimed that the child was in his custody and demanded ₹ 20 lakh ransom to hand her over.
“During interrogation, he confessed to committing the murder of the child as part of a premeditated plan to demand a ransom of ₹ 20 lakh from her parents,” Malkajgiri Police Commissioner B Sumathi told reporters. Based on preliminary investigation, she said the accused killed the girl by strangulation. The investigation will be completed at the earliest, and the trial will be pursued before a Fast Track Court and pursued diligently to seek capital punishment for the accused, police said.
Kumar had used the SIM card of another security guard at the gated community to make the ransom calls to the victim’s family, Sumathi said.
During the course of the investigation, Vikram Kumar, a native of Nalanda district of Bihar, who had previously worked as a security guard at the gated community from September 22 to October 6, was apprehended on October 11. Based on a complaint by the girl’s father, a case was registered at Bollarum police station and an investigation was initiated into the suspected kidnapping.
