The Swift in which Mikhail ‘abducted’ his stepdadMateen Hafeez & Nitasha Natu I TNN
Mumbai: A sordid family drama over money spilled onto the streets of some of Mumbai’s toniest neighbourhoods on Tuesday night as police vehicles chased a car through the Malabar Hill area before trapping a man who had kidnapped his stepfather at gunpoint for ransom near the Kemps Corner junction. He has been arrested.
The drama had begun earlier in the evening when Mikhail Zaveri, 34, asked for Rs 3 lakh from his 60-year-old stepfather, Pradeep Sood, who runs an engineering firm. On being refused the money, the unemployed youth threatened Pradeep with an airgun and told him to ask for the money from his sister, Mridula Maluste, a resident of Malabar Hill. Pradeep refused, prompting Mikhail to make the call to her. He threatened to kill his stepdad if she did not pay up.
He locked his mother in the flat in Goregaon (E), forced Pradeep into his car and left for Malabar Hill. His aunt, meanwhile, alerted the police, who lay in wait for Mikhail. Seeing the cops, Mikhail sped away, prompting the chase. Trapped at Kemps Corner, he tried to attack Pradeep, but was stopped in the nick of time.
The Times of India, July 16, 2009
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