The act of kidnapping is a crime and a kidnapper is a criminal, and the money or some other valuable demanded by a kidnapper is called ‘ransom’.

Though the kidnapping cases are becoming more and more day by day, the police say in 89% of the cases the kidnappers are traced and arrested with the kidnap victims unharmed.

Most of the kidnappers in Colombia, South Africa are, according to media reports, rebel groups aided and drug dealers who kidnap foreign tourists and local politicians in order to scare the government off from taking drastic military operations to eradicate them!

There are kidnappers within families, who kidnap their own relatives, mostly young children or grown-up girls, to settle some family feuds or for some ransom.