Acting on a tipoff, the Tirtol police arrested four persons involved in teacher Rabinarayan Mishra’s kidnap on Monday and recovered a sum of Rs 50,000, four mobile phones and a Tata Magic light motor vehicle from their possession.
Reports said that Rabinarayan Mishra, a resident of Eradanga under Tirtol block had been kidnapped on December 2 by miscreants while he was returning to his village Nalibar. The kidnappers demanded a ransom of Rs 5 lakh from his family for releasing him from their custody.
Responding to the kidnappers’ telephonic calls, the family arranged Rs 4 lakh and paid to them, following which Mishra was set free and reached home.
Soon after Mishra was freed, the family members lodged an FIR at the Tirtol police station narrating the incident. The police acted promptly, formed two teams for the probe and finally picked up the kidnappers from the Tirtol area. The abductors were identified as Tapan Kumar Das, Biswajit Patra, Pratap Mohanty and Suryakanta Mohapatra, all inhabitants in Tirtol police limits. During custodial interrogation, they confessed to the crime and revealed the names of three others, who had participated in the kidnapping act.