Putting at rest to the controversy over the mysterious kidnapping of a scribe of Oupada area, the district police after rescuing the kidnapped person from Egra area of West Bengal arrested three persons including the key accused.
Srikrushna Sahu was allegedly kidnapped by unknown miscreants on Sunday night, at around 8 pm when he was returning home in his scooty from local market.
The miscreants rounded up by police were identified as key conspirator Khagen Majhi of Egra under East Medinapur , Tapan Das and Manoj Parida of Mandarpur village under Remuna police station limits
According to police sources, involvement of at least 5 more had come to the fore during investigation, adding the incident is a fallout of business rivalry.
Khagen had engaged hired goons from Remuna and Panjibag area to execute the crime.
A source in police said , Sahu used to engage crop cutting machines in Egra area in rent. He had engaged a caretaker to utilize machine as well as to collect dues.
The caretaker had requested to arrange one second hand crop cutting machine for him and for which he had paid Rs 5 lakh in advance to Sahu.
Yet, Sahu neither supplied him the second hand machine nor returned the money. For extracting money from Sahu, he contacted the criminals.
These criminals, belonging to Baleswar after hiring a Bolero had gone to Oupada on Sunday evening. Finding an opportunity, they forcibly kidnapped him and took to an unknown destination.
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Nilgiri SDPO Sudam Charan Sahu is investigating the case.
The police could get the lead after learning the number of the Bolero used for the crime. They could further learn that the miscreants changed to another vehicle from Basta and went to Bengal.
The Bolero vehicle used by the miscreants has been seized by te Opada police.