Uttar Pradesh: Eminent businessman kidnapped at gun-point from Ferozabad

Sanjay Mittal, a renowned name in Glass Industry in Uttar Pradesh and a close friend of Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, was abducted by gun-toting motorcycle-borne criminals in Ferozabad district on Friday.

Still groping in dark about the double murder of jewellers in Mathura, the broad-day light kidnapping of the famous glass industrialist has come as a big blow to the Uttar Pradesh Police and Yogi government which is finding it difficult to reply to opposition’s charges on deteriorating law and order situation after sudden rise in criminal incidents in the state.

Sanjay Mittal, owner of FM Glass Industry, was on way to his factory in Nagla Bhau industrial area in Ferozabad when his Innova was intercepted by a motor-cyclist. Two men in police dress stopped his car and whipped out a pistol and carjacked Sanjay in his own car.

Acting as policemen, the criminals first cleared the traffic on the national highway and sped away with Sanjay in his own car towards Agra highway. They left their motor-cycle on the spot. The police, which reached the spot one hour late, seized the mobike and sought registration details of its owner from the Regional Transport Office (RTO).

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