<p>Meerut (UP): A former driver of a junior engineer of Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam and two other men have been arrested for allegedly kidnapping the six-year-old daughter of the official, police said on Tuesday.</p>.<p>Additional Superintendent of Police Ayush Vikram Singh said the girl was kidnapped on Monday afternoon and the accused had demanded a ransom of Rs 3 crore for her release.</p>.<p>A complaint was lodged immediately and an FIR was registered, following which police launched a hunt to nab them.</p>.<p>The girl reached her home within hours after her kidnap as the police had blocked all entry and exit of the city, scaring the kidnappers, a police official said.</p>.<p>Of the three accused, Akash, the former driver of the official, and Raju were arrested on Monday night following an exchange of fire, the ASP said, adding Ajay was nabbed later.</p>.Congress depicts picture of one family: Himanta.<p>Two country-made pistols and a car used in the kidnapping were seized from them, Singh said.</p>.<p>During interrogation, Akash confessed that he had planned the kidnapping after being removed from the driver's job, police said.</p>.<p>Elaborating on the modus operandi of the crime, Akash told police that they had rented a car and waited outside the official's house and around 1:30 pm kidnapped his daughter when she arrived home from school in an auto-rickshaw.</p>
<p>Meerut (UP): A former driver of a junior engineer of Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam and two other men have been arrested for allegedly kidnapping the six-year-old daughter of the official, police said on Tuesday.</p>.<p>Additional Superintendent of Police Ayush Vikram Singh said the girl was kidnapped on Monday afternoon and the accused had demanded a ransom of Rs 3 crore for her release.</p>.<p>A complaint was lodged immediately and an FIR was registered, following which police launched a hunt to nab them.</p>.<p>The girl reached her home within hours after her kidnap as the police had blocked all entry and exit of the city, scaring the kidnappers, a police official said.</p>.<p>Of the three accused, Akash, the former driver of the official, and Raju were arrested on Monday night following an exchange of fire, the ASP said, adding Ajay was nabbed later.</p>.Congress depicts picture of one family: Himanta.<p>Two country-made pistols and a car used in the kidnapping were seized from them, Singh said.</p>.<p>During interrogation, Akash confessed that he had planned the kidnapping after being removed from the driver's job, police said.</p>.<p>Elaborating on the modus operandi of the crime, Akash told police that they had rented a car and waited outside the official's house and around 1:30 pm kidnapped his daughter when she arrived home from school in an auto-rickshaw.</p>