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A 28-year-old man has been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the kid­nap­ping of busi­ness­man Za­heer Esat.

Esat, 46, was tak­en at gun­point from a ve­hi­cle at War­ren Road, Cunu­pia, around 1.50 pm on April 4 and was found wan­der­ing near the Ca­roni Cre­ma­tion Site around 8.15 pm on April 6.

He was tak­en by a pass­er-by to the Ca­roni Po­lice Sta­tion, where he told of­fi­cers he had es­caped by jump­ing out of a car trunk while be­ing moved from the lo­ca­tion where he had been held af­ter be­ing ab­duct­ed.