Hyderabad, Sept.5 (NSS): Gathering vital information, a special team of city police on Wednesday intensified search for Dr Harsha Reddy, who was allegedly abducted for ransom. As Dr Harsha Reddy, working in the Yashoda Hospital at Malakpet was found missing since Monday evening, his friends lodged a complaint with the Malakpet police.
The police, who initially registered a case of missing person, launched investigation. Meanwhile, the abductors called Dr Harsha Reddy’s father residing in Vijayawada and demanded Rs 40 lakh ransom for release of his son. The kidnappers also threatened that his son would be killed if he failed to pay the ransom. Therefore, the police converted the case into kidnapping and intensified investigation. They traced the mobile phone of Harsha Reddy in the neighbouring Nalgonda district. The police suspect that the kidnappers threw the doctor’s mobile phone at Durajpalli and it was recovered from a villager, who had picked it up from the roadside. The police intensified checking along the Hyderabad-Suryapet highway after recovering the mobile phone.
It is learnt that Dr Harsha Reddy, 31, a radiologist, had left Yashoda Hospital, on Monday evening. He had told his friends that he was going for a long drive. When he did not return home, his friends alerted the hospital and the police. On receiving a phone call from the culprits, the doctor’s parents lodged a complaint of kidnapping with the Chaderghat police station on Wednesday.
The police have formed four special teams to trace the doctor. The investigating officers are also analyzing the CCTV footage of Harsha Reddy leaving the hospital on Monday evening. The doctor was staying with his friend in a flat near the hospital. His wife is a student of Manipal Medical College in Karnataka.
–Agencies