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Anant Kidnapping: Rs 50 lakh found
Published on Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 19:50, Updated on Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 10:55 in 
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Naresh Gupta told the press conference he cannot explain how exactly Anant came home. "There is still some confusion there and the role of the auto is still not very clear. What I can tell you is that the police wanted to adopt an aggressive strategy, but I told them that the child's safety is of the utmost importance," he said.
"Police agreed, and it was good that they did because after speaking to the kidnappers a few times we realised that they were amateurs and were coming under pressure and could do anything with all the media attention on them," Gupta said.
"They called us many times—on my wife's cell phone or on our landline. They did not want to talk to me. We could however hear the desperation in their voices increasing each time called us and that is why we had asked the media to back off from the case," he said.
"In the 10 calls that they made, we discussed things like how much money they wanted, where they wanted the money to be delivered and how they would return the child back once the money had been given. Our strategy was this that the more we speak to them, the more we could know about where they were."
"There has been some speculation by the media that the bags that left the house the other day had money in them—that is not true. Those were laptops and equipment used by the police to trace the calls and the whereabouts of the kidnappers," he said.
Gupta also said that they managed to convince the kidnappers to let them speak to Anant on Tuesday.
On police efforts to rescue Anant, Gupta said: "The police had come to know the identity of the people involved, but we decided not to reveal anything that would jeopardise the child's safety."
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