Jhansi, April 21 -- An army man and four others were arrested on Sunday for abducting a businessman in Jhansi's Raksa about a week ago, police said, adding two more of their accomplices were still at large.

Madhav Mohan Gupta, 34, who owns an electronics showroom in Jhansi's Raksa area, was returning home on his two-wheeler after shutting down his store last Monday when he was abducted.

The accused picked him up in a tractor trolley and took him to a forest near Moth before relocating him to Chirgaon, he had told police after claiming to have somehow escaped his kidnappers two days later. Also, the kidnappers had demanded Rs.1.5 crore as ransom, according to officials.

Superintendent of police (SP)-City Gyanendra Kumar Singh said Ghane...