Muscat: Detectives from the Northern Command of the Royal Oman Police (ROP) have nabbed all five suspects in the Sohar kidnapping case within 48 hours of the complaint being filed with them.

Mohammad Hanifa was rescued on Monday by a team of plainclothes police officers from ROP’s Northern Batinah Command after they barged into a farm where the abducted Indian worker was kept for over four days by his captors who were demanding a ransom.

The 28-year-old catering company worker was kidnapped on the evening of September 18 and his relatives received calls from the kidnappers asking for the ransom. A brother of the kidnapped Indian had then told Gulf News that they had deposited Rs50,000 (Dh2,952) in a Pakistani bank account in the Punjab province through a money exchange house in Saudi Arabia.

Mohammad Abbas, brother of the victim, had alleged that the kidnappers had raised the ransom demand to Rs500,000. However, according to ROP, the kidnappers had demanded 5,000 Omani riyals (Dh47,695).

The kidnapped worker was also tortured by his captors.

Hanifa’s family had at first filed a complaint with the police in their native town in Kerala after receiving ransom calls through a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone.

However, after the kidnappers failed to release Hanifa despite the ransom payment, the Indian worker’s Omani employer approached Sohar police on September 21. The police tracked down the kidnappers with their phone location to a farm in Sohar and stormed the place.

At the time of the raid, the ROP team captured three suspected while two managed to run away but were later caught due to police teams’ efforts.

A spokesperson for the ROP’s Public Relations Department said that the suspects had shackled and badly beaten the kidnapped man.

He added that all five were handed over to the Public Prosecution for a court case.

Meanwhile, Brigadier General Rashid Bin Salim Bin Rashid Al Badi, Director General of Criminal Investigations at ROP’s Northern Batinah command felicitated the officers involved in solving the kidnap case.