India, June 13 -- The 12-year-old son of a woman executive engineer (XEN) posted in Panipat was rescued by a joint police team on Saturday morning following a dramatic highway chase and a shootout in Rohtak.

The boy, Kabir, had been abducted from his home on Friday evening for a Rs.1.5 crore ransom. Two of the kidnappers sustained bullet wounds to their legs during the exchange of fire and were arrested along with a woman accomplice.

The victim is the son of Sunita Rani, an XEN at the Panipat Thermal Power Plant, and Sameer, a deputy general manager based in Jaipur. The boy was abducted from the family's government quarter in the Thermal Colony on Friday evening, while his mother was at work. Upon returning home at 9.30pm and finding he...