A 24-year-old Snapdeal employee who went missing near Ghaziabad two days ago told police on Friday she was abducted by four men she was sharing an auto with on her way home from a local metro station.
Ghaziabad senior superintendent of police Dharmendra Singh said the men were “illiterate and local goons”, who were spooked by the 200-men-strong manhunt and massive media coverage to locate Dipti Sarna.
“The men don’t appear to have physically harmed Dipti. She is being given some time to rest. The investigation is on and we will prepare a sketch of the four men,” he told HT.
An executive with the e-commerce major’s legal department since April, Dipti Sarna took a shared auto from the Vaishali Metro station in Ghaziabad at 7.42pm on Wednesday.
But the auto broke down halfway at Mohan Nagar, forcing the other passengers to board another auto to the old bus stand in Ghaziabad.
Minutes later, the only other female passenger in the auto was forced to get off at knifepoint by the four men in the vehicle, at a location near the Hindon river.
The men snatched Dipti’s bag and mobile, but not before a friend she was speaking with on the phone heard her scream. The men then drove the auto to a secluded area in Raj Nagr extention.
As pressure mounted on the abductors with multiple police search teams and intense media coverage, the men didn’t take the risk of stopping at a hideout for the night.
“They travelled with Dipti the entire night, sometimes in an i10 car, sometimes on a bike. They made Dipti walk around 10 kilometres,” Singh told HT.
Early in the morning, the men brought her to a suburban railway station and made her board a Delhi-bound train, giving her some money.
“Around 3-4 stations later, she recognized Narela station and borrowed a mobile phone from a passenger and used it to call her family,” Singh said.
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