India's new rich as brutal kidnappers target their children

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Insurers rank India as the fifth most dangerous country in the world for kidnapping, with one US firm warning last month that westerners should now also consider themselves targets. . . . figures from Delhi police show that kidnap for ransom is on the rise. In 2008, there were 1,233 cases in the national capital; by last year that had soared to 2,975. In the first three months of 2011, 802 cases were registered. With the police often slow to react and wealthy parents eager to pay, a kidnap should be a quick and simple money-spinner. Instead it is a lottery, because the perpetrators frequently panic and kill their captives

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