Kidnapper worked as temporary driver for police

He didn’t need anybody to know concerning the telephone calls he used to make to his girlfriend. That was when Manda Sagar knew, via a good friend, a couple of cellular app of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) know-how.

He allegedly used the identical cellular app to make ransom calls to the dad and mom of nine-year-old Deekshit Reddy in Mahabubabad city.

In reality, utilization of this cellular app by the accused within the boy’s kidnap and homicide grew to become a hurdle to the investigators to achieve him.

Though investigation revealed that the boy had been killed earlier than his dad and mom approached police about his disappearance, Sagar had been roaming in Mahabubabad city. “And he was making ransom calls to the boy’s parents even as multiple special teams of police were struggling to understand from where he was making calls,” a police officer stated on situation of anonymity.

Sagar downloaded the app practically a 12 months in the past to talk together with his girlfriend. The app allows consumer to make calls utilizing VoIP know-how. A non-public quantity, apart from that of the decision maker’s, shows on the receiver’s cell phone. This makes it troublesome for the receiver or others to trace the caller’s quantity.

Sagar reportedly secured two sleeping capsules from a Registered Medical Practitioner after hatching the plot to kidnap the boy. He befriended the boy giving candies earlier.

On the day of kidnap, he requested the boy to accompany him to a close-by petrol bunk to buy some oil.

He took the boy to a hillock the place he satisfied him to drink water laced with sleeping tablet.

When the boy awoke after a few hours, Sagar allegedly throttled him to demise. He got here again to his home and went to the home of boy’s uncle Manoj Reddy to be taught concerning the response of boy’s dad and mom.

Sagar runs a two-wheeler spare elements store. Sitting on the store, he made ransom calls to the boy’s father Ranjith Reddy and requested him to come back to a junction (known as Three Shops) with cash.

“He could see Ranjith sitting from his shop but grew suspicious of policemen in plainclothes moving there,” an officer stated.