Patna: With incidents of kidnapping rising in the last one month, fear of abductions has once again come to haunt Bihar.
Three people, including a 15-year-old school boy, were abducted in the last two days across the state. The class 9 student, Shubham Kumar, was rescued by the police in Sitamarhi on Tuesday — five hours after he was abducted in Muzaffarpur, police said yesterday.
A businessman's son, Lalkun Kumar, was abducted at gun point late on Monday night when he was returning to his village in Khagaria. The abductors have demanded Rs500,000 (Dh40,781) ransom from his family. Lalkun's father Prabhunath Singh is a well-known banana farmer and businessman of Pasraha in Khagaria. Police have lodged a case of kidnapping and arrested one person in this connection.
Big relief
Noor Hassan, the owner of a band party, was kidnapped in Patna by unidentified people on Tuesday. His wife lodged a case in Phulwarisharief police station on Tuesday after abductors demanded Rs500,000 for his release.
Patna Superintendent of Police Manu Maharaj told IANS that a police team was trying to trace Hassan. It was a big relief for the police when they rescued Shubham, who was abducted on Tuesday morning when he was on his way to his school in Muzaffarpur.
Another good news for the police was that abductors on Tuesday freed Deepak Kumar, a businessman who was kidnapped 20 days ago. But the police are still clueless about Ajay Kushwaha, a plywood dealer, who was kidnapped in Muzaffarpur at gun point early this month. The police have also failed to make any breakthrough in tracing five-year-old Golu, who was abducted in Gaya district on December 23.
