In a highly shocking case, six miscreants, including two engineering students of the OEC College here, were arrested by the Commissionerate police on the charge of kidnapping a student of a city-based private engineering college, Anuj Jha, for ransom.
The accused were identified as OEC students Dev Arpit Mishra and Jyoti Prakash Mohanty, driver Abhimanyu Das, Chandan Dakua , Priya Ranjan Mallik and Girish Naidu.
The police seized a Tavera car, a Pulsar motorcycle and a Bullet motorbike and four mobile phones from their possessions. However, the abduction mastermind, one Debasish Mukherjee, has managed to elude the police dragnet. The police are on the lookout for Debasish and his wife, who had called Anuj to a fixed spot on some pretext, from where he was abducted in the car.
Police said the accused, who were in the Tavera SUV, abducted Anuj from the Jagamara area under the Khandagiri police station on Thursday. later, the accused demanded a ransom of Rs 10 lakh to release Anuj unharmed. This was alleged by Anuj’s elder brother in a complaint lodged with the Khandagiri police.
However, they were nabbed by a police team near Phulnakhara while they were on their way to the city late on Thursday night. The police caught the miscreants by monitoring calls of their mobile phones.