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Shimla: The Bishop Cotton School (BCS) abduction case has taken an even darker turn with chilling details emerging from one of the rescued boys.
A relative of one of the rescued Class VI students revealed that the accused allegedly mentioned about two Africa-origin men armed with syringes to intimidate the children.
According to the relative, the kidnapper warned the children that if they made noise or tried to escape, these men would first chop off their fingers, then their legs and finally their heads before dumping their bodies in remote forests so that their families would never find them. Although no injections were actually administered, the threats were enough to traumatise the children.
The 45-year-old accused, Sumit Sood, a former student of BCS, allegedly used his familiarity with the campus to his advantage. He parked his vehicle in a blind spot not covered by CCTV and waited from 5 am until around 12.15 pm when the three boys — holding an outing pass — left the school premises. Claiming he would drop them at Mall Road, he drove them away instead, at one point brandishing a gun when one of the children protested.
During the three-and-a-half-hour drive to the hideout, the boys’ eyes were blindfolded and their mouths taped shut. They were taken to the top floor of a four-storey building, where arrangements had been made for their stay. The accused served the children pizza and omelettes but kept them in fear with a knife and threats that they would be moved to Chandigarh and later Chennai, remaining in his custody for a month.
Police have not yet confirmed the involvement of any foreign nationals.
Sumit Sood remains in police custody until August 13 as investigations continue into the full extent of the kidnapping plot and whether it involved accomplices from outside India.
