Although the children were kidnapped for ransom, they were killed after the kidnappers learned that their father was a naval officer, in the assumption that he was not wealthy.
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8:45 pm – Father did not find them at All India Radio office Geeta Chopra was a 16½-year-old 2nd year student in the Jesus and Mary College, New Delhi.
A man named M. S. Nanda gave the children a lift from Dhaula Kuan to Gole Dak Khana as it was drizzling.
[3][4] At 6:30 pm, Bhagwan Dass had noticed a mustard colour Fiat car, while traveling from Gurudwara Bangla Sahib towards North Avenue, near the yoga ashram at Gole Dak Khana.
One man named Babu Lal, dropped his bicycle and tried to grab the door handle of the car, but failed.
At 6:45 pm, he called the police control room and told them the license number of the car as HRK 8930, but it was noted by the operator as MRK 8930.
The boy showed his bleeding shoulder to Inderjeet Singh and waved his hands at him pleading for help.
[4] The police were slow in their reaction as they considered it a cognisable offence and that it was outside their jurisdiction as they could not proceed without taking permission from the Meerut High Court.
At 10:15 pm, the kidnappers went to the Willingdon Hospital in a car with the number DHI 280, as one of them, Billa, had acquired a cut on his head.
The constable on duty at the hospital, Ranbir Singh, took their statement in which they said they were attacked near Kali mandir on Bangla Sahib road, their watch was stolen, and the injury was from an iron rod.
At 10:50 pm, two policemen dispatched from the Mandir Marg station to further question them arrived at the hospital.
Chander inquired with the Regional Transport Office and found the vehicle number belonged to a scooter.
The father searched places where the children might have possibly gone to, including the Willingdon Hospital and returned home at 11:30 pm.
[3] The bodies were discovered by a cowherd, Dhani Ram, grazing his cows in Delhi Ridge on 28 August 1978, at 6 pm.
[3] On 31 August, a car matching the kidnapping vehicle was found in Majlis Park with the number, DHD 7034.
A car had been reported missing of the same make, but number DEA 1221, so the police called the owner Ashok Sharma.
On that day, the two kidnappers boarded the Kalka Mail when it had slowed near the Yamuna river bridge near Agra.
On 13 September, on Billa's directions, they were driven separately to Agra, where the police recovered a sword from a rented room in Sita Nagar where they were staying.
[3] On 22 September, Ranga made a voluntary confession which was recorded by a metropolitan magistrate, but the statement was later retracted on 20 November.
[3] Two doctors from the Willingdon Hospital who examined Billa on the night of 26 August could not positively identify him.
Anil Kumar Gupta, who worked in a guest house near Gali Telian in Delhi, said he had given them a room from 31 August to 2 September.
They decided that they would kidnap a couple the next day, then force them to take them to their house so they could rob it, but they found no victims while roaming in the car.
Billa told the children that the girl would be used in a robbery in which she would stop a jeweler's car coming from Palam airport, asking for a lift.
Ranga was forced by Billa to attack the boy with longer kirpan, about 3 feet long.
[3] Kuljeet Singh (alias Ranga Kush) and Jasbir Singh (alias Billa) were convicted and sentenced to death under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code, read with Section 34 (common intention), by an additional sessions judge in Delhi.
[5] Following the judgement, some journalists petitioned the Tihar jail that they be allowed to interview the death row convicts.
[10] Journalist Prabha Dutt decided to challenge the rejection of interview requests in court.
[11] On 7 November 1981, the Supreme Court of India decided that the convicts should be allowed to be interviewed by some journalists, if they were willing.
[12][13] The journalists were granted permission to interview them together, for an hour, and to submit to search before entering the prison.