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Snapdeal executive returns home safely, police clueless about alleged abductors

Dipti's parents informed the police immediately and proceeded to pick her up from the said location. Senior police officials accompanied the family to their residence in order to take a statement from Dipti.

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The 24-year-old Snapdeal executive, who was allegedly abducted from Ghaziabad area of Uttar Pradesh, on Friday returned to her home, ending a 36-hour rescue and search operation launched by the local police. Dipti Sarna, who was allegedly abducted by four men when she was returning to her residence in Ghaziabad's Kavi Nagar area from her Gurgaon office, on Friday morning called up on her father's mobile phone and asked him to pick her up from New Delhi railway station.

Dipti's parents informed the police immediately and proceeded to pick her up from the said location. Senior police officials accompanied the family to their residence in order to take a statement from Dipti.

She was taken to a hospital where she underwent medical tests and has been resting ever since. Her brother Deepak while speaking to dna said that the family feels both happy and lucky that Dipti returned to her home safely. But the police have been left confused by this development in the 36-hour abduction story.

According to police, Dipti has told investigators that at around 8pm on Wednesday she took a sharing auto with another girl at Vaishali metro station. Dipti's father was supposed to pick her up from a bus stop near their residence. But before she could meet up with her father, the auto driver allegedly asked the other girl to jump out of the auto and fled with Dipti. Later three other men joined the auto driver.

"The men drove the auto to a secluded area in Raj Nagar extension after snatching Dipti's phone and bag. They travelled with Dipti the entire night, sometimes in an i10 car, sometimes on a bike. They made Dipti walk around 10 kilometers," a senior police officer said.

Early in the morning on Friday, the men brought her to a suburban railway station and made her board a Delhi-bound train, giving her some money. "Around 3-4 stations later, she recognised Narela station and borrowed a mobile phone from a passenger and used it to call her family," the officer said, adding that the abductors might have been spooked due to a large rescue and search operation coupled with the extensive media coverage.

According to another police source, Dipti has said that the abductors told her that they intended to take her to a person.

Dipti in her statement has said that early morning on Friday she found herself in a train and asked co-passengers where was the train headed. One of the co-passenger told her that the train was headed to Delhi from Panipat and that she was in Narela at that particular moment. She then called her father and asked him to pick her up.

Dipti has also said that her alleged abductors took good care of her, fed her on time and did not beat her up. This was, however, after the initial round of threatening wherein the abductors asked her to obey their instructions. "They told her that they would not harm her if she did not raise an alarm or did not do anything suspicious," said a police officer.

The police said that they did not wish to come to a conclusion so soon about the course of events. They also have no clues about the abductors.

"We are taking Dipti's account as the truth and will work accordingly," said another senior police official.

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