HYDERABAD: Cyberabad police on Tuesday rescued a film producer's son, who was kidnapped by a gang `with the help of its police friend' a week ago, arresting eight persons.

Among the arrested was Ch. Ramesh Kumar, a constable working in Chaderghat police station. An amount of Rs. 80,000 was recovered from the arrested persons, Cyberabad Police Commissioner S. Prabhakar Reddy told a press conference.

The victim, Sudhir, (18) studying medicine in Narsampet, is the son of a film producer Durgaprasad.

He was in a rented flat at Miyapur when some persons barged inside on Tuesday last claiming they were Task Force police officials.

After ransacking the apartment in the name of searches, they whisked him away and his cook Murali to Shamshabad in a car.

The gang confined them in a room for that night and went on shifting them from one hideout to the other for the next six days.

On Wednesday, they rang up the film producer demanding Rs. 10 crore ransom.

That was when Durgaprasad realised that it was the same gang, which raided his film production office in Banjara Hills in December last posing as Task Force police officials.

Mobile phones

At that time, the gang made off with some Rs. 6 lakh and some mobile phones.

A case is pending with Banjara Hills police in this regard.

As the kidnappers threatened to kill his son, Durgaparasad agreed to pay Rs. 3 crore ransom and approached the police.

The Special Operations Team began monitoring telephone calls of the gang and took into custody the film producer's manager Rambabu even as the victim's father continued talks with the kidnappers about mode of ransom payment.

Based on Rambabu's confession, police swooped down on a house in Suraram of Jeedimetla and rescued Sudhir and Murali by arresting eight persons, including the alleged mastermind behind the abduction, B. Srinivas Babu, a real estate agent.

The arrested confessed to police that they took the help of a Reserve Police Inspector Nageshwar Babu of Nalgonda, two constables of Madhapur police station Amjad and Ravinder Reddy and another constable Ramesh to raid the producer's office in Banjara Hills. "In the kidnap case, however, only Ramesh was involved," the Commissioner, said.

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