NEW DELHI: The India head of French multinational engineering group Alstom was rescued over the weekend hours after he was kidnapped near New Delhi, police said yesterday. Police said Rathin Basu was abducted by a group of five men, at least one of whom was armed, late on Friday. The kidnappers forced him to stop his car and pushed him into their white Camry in Delhi’s satellite city of Noida before driving to the northern town of Meerut, said Meerut senior superintendent of police Deepak Kumar.
“We sent out 70 policemen to map the area from Noida to Meerut and after a firefight with the kidnappers, we finally found Mr Basu around 4am on Saturday,” Kumar said. AFP
