India, Sept. 16 -- The abduction of a 25-year-old Ghaziabad-based marble trader from Indirapuram was allegedly orchestrated by a Greater Noida businessman as he had incurred a huge loss, and thus he involved his six friends, including a woman, to make moolah by demanding a Rs.4 crore ransom, police said on Monday.

The suspects, led by mastermind Nimay Sharma, a tour and travel businessman, had allegedly taken Shashank Gupta of Ghaziabad nearly 300 km away in a Mahindra XUV 3XO on September 9, police said.

The victim was finally recovered on Sunday (September 14) and five suspects -- Mohit Gupta and Sumit Gupta from Farrukhabad; Alok Yadav and Shyam Sundar from Chhibramau in Kannauj; and Nimay Sharma, all in their 30s, a resident of a hi...