'Cognizant' Software professional's son kidnapped

Hyderabad, Sept 4 (UNI) The son of Software professionals working in a top IT company was kidnapped by some persons at Hitech city here tonight.

Police said Rohit Reddy, aged about three years, son of Ravinder Reddy, working in Cognizant Software company, was abducted by unknown persons. The boy was abducted from a play ground, located beside the apartments where the family was residing.

Noticing the boy was playing in the ground, a person jumped the wall of the play ground and picked him. Later the boy was taken away in a Qualis car.

The boy's mother was working in Satyam computers as a software engineer.

Police resigtered a case and launched hunt. So far, the parents have not received phone call from the abducters. police suspect that the boy was kidnapped for extortion of money.

UNI