Five-year-old Manish was rescued by the police here in Palamu on Monday in less than 15 hours of kidnapping. Police found the kidnapped child hungry, exhausted and tensed near a pahari called Itko under Chainpur police station. Police claim that no ransom was paid as the kidnappers had left behind the child at Itko following intense pressure built up by the police for his rescue.
DIG of police Palamu range Saket Kumar Singh said the child Manish was playing near his house at Baroun on Sunday when at around 9 o’clock in the day two criminals came on the bike and took him away. DIG further added the family of Manish did not suspect anything foul till 12.30 believing the child was playing but after 12.30 the family paicked following a call asking Manish’s father for `5 lakhs as ransom for son’s release. DIG said the family reported this kidnapping to police at around 4.30 in the evening of Sunday.
A DSP Heera lal Ravi was put on the job said DIG who started conducting raids on the possible hideouts and on Monday August 10 the child was rescued near Itko pahari.
DSP Ravi said no ransom was paid at all. The criminals knew the police were after them and so they left behind the child. The rescued child was immediately given food.
Prompt and swift action of the police team led by DSP Ravi and tracking of conversations of the kidnappers by the technical cell of the police here led to the cracking of the case said sources.The rescue and recovery of the child has won Palamu police a big pat.
In other development the Satbarwa police in Palamu nabbed two activists pretending to be JPC ultra and seized country-made gun and two cartridges. Confirming the arrest of two Rangbahadur Singh and Babban Kumar the OC Satbarwa police station Rustam Khan said Ranbhadur used to fake his identity as of Rahul ji of JPC and used to frighten people with the name of this naxal outfit. Khan said the police seized the sim card of Rangbahadur Singh with which he had so created his reign of terror in parts of Satbarwa. Singh and Babban were accused of burning down a stone crushing plant at Dulsulma on July 20. The two were sent to central jail in Daltonganj on Monday.