Kidnapped Indian trader rescued

ANGELES CITY – Police rescued Monday night an Indian trader abandoned by his kidnappers in Dinalupihan town in Bataan.

Superintendent Florendo Saligao, chief of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit (CIDU) of the Pampanga police, said the victim, Dalvir Singh, 35, a resident of this city, was seized in the morning of the same day by four armed men near the gate of the Basa Air Force Base in Floridablanca town.

In the afternoon, the kidnappers told the victim to call up his brother, Jasvinder Pal, to relay their demand for P500,000 ransom.

Saligao said the victim’s brother informed police about the kidnapping while at the same time negotiated successfully with the kidnappers on the phone to lower the ransom to P100,000.

A CIDU team set up an entrapment during the supposed payoff in a safehouse in Barangay Mabini Extension in Dinalupihan town, but the kidnappers did not show up.

Police, however, found Singh in the site.

Saligao said Singh identified his kidnappers from photos in the police’s rogue gallery. The suspects’ identities were not disclosed so as not to jeopardize police operations against them. – Ding Cervantes, Ric Sapnu