Missing For 36 hours, Snapdeal’s Dipti Sarna Is Back Home But Won’t File Case Against Kidnappers

Admin 13-Feb-2016 11:25:47 Inothernews

Missing For 36 hours, Snapdeal’s Dipti Sarna Is Back Home But Won’t File Case Against Kidnappers


This is how the kidnapping of Snapdeal employee Dipti Sarna, 24, that took social media by storm for two days unfolded, until she returned home on Friday morning: On Wednesday, around 8.30 pm, Ghaziabad resident Dipti Sarna, an executive with Snapdeal's legal department in Gurgaon office, was allegedly kidnapped. She had taken an auto at 7.45 pm from Vaishali Metro Station in Ghaziabad to the old bus stand from where her father Narendra Sarna was supposed to pick her up. The family lives in Kavi Nagar, and this has been the family's routine for over a year. However, Narendra Sarna received a frantic call from one of Dipti's friends in Bengaluru at around 8.45 pm. The friend said while Dipti was speaking to him over the phone, she suddenly screamed and said something about the auto driver taking a different route, so she might be in danger. For nearly two days – 36 hours to be precise – the Sarna family lived a nightmare. Dipti's phone was switched off, and they got no call from any kidnapper either. The nightmare ended on Friday morning at 7 am, when Dipti called her father Narendra Sarna and asked him to pick her up from New Delhi railway station. This is how she was reunited with the family.



This is what Dipti's family and the police have told us so far about the kidnapping and her eventual return:

According to a report in Hindustan Times, Ghaziabad senior superintendent of police Dharmendra Singh said that Dipti was kidnapped by four "illiterate and local goons”, who were so scared by the 200-men-strong manhunt and the massive media coverage to find Dipti Sarna that they decided to simply make her return to her family.

The report said after Dipti took an auto from the metro station, it broke down halfway at Mohan Nagar. This forced most other passengers to board another auto to the old bus stand.

But Dipti and one more female passenger remained inside. However, the four men forced the other woman to get off at knifepoint at a location near the Hindon river

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The men then snatched Dipti’s bag and mobile. However, Dipti was on her phone and the friend she was talking to, heard her screams and the commotion.

The men then drove the auto to a secluded area in Raj Nagar extension.

However, they came under pressure when reports of the multiple police search teams and intense media coverage reached them. The men didn’t take the risk of stopping at any place for the night.

Singh told HT: “They travelled with Dipti the entire night, sometimes in an i10 car, sometimes on a bike. They made Dipti walk around 10 kilometres.”

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