Vijay’s parents get ransom call

AFTER almost a month of silence from ten-year-old Vijay Persad’s kidnappers, his parents received a telephone call Thursday night by someone requesting $40,000 in return for the child’s release. However, investigators are not sure whether the call was from the child’s kidnappers, since the child was not allowed to speak with his father Ragkummar or mother Marilyn. Investigators said it was possible that someone may have been trying to solicit money from his worried parents. When Vijay was snatched on the night of Monday, June 21, the kidnappers made a $500,000 ransom demand and allowed his father to speak with him.

For the first time since the abduction, Persad re-opened his small businessplace in front of his Indian Walk home at Moruga on Thursday. Meanwhile up to late yesterday, Rodney Persad was still missing even though his relatives reportedly paid $2 million to his kidnappers on Wednesday. Persad, 28, the son of multi-millionaire Jawaharlal Deosaran, was snatched from his in-laws’ home at Orange Field Road in Carapichaima almost three weeks ago. Officers of the Anti-Kidnapping Squad are continuing investigations into both kidnappings.