A youth, native of the Rasulgarh area in Bhubaneswar, was arrested and forwarded to court by the Sundargarh police on Friday, allegedly for kidnapping a nurse, when she was returning after attending a medical camp duty with other medical staffers on Thursday afternoon.
Police chased the vehicle of the kidnapper and intercepted him from Jharkhand on Ranchi route. The accused youth reportedly had one-sided love affair with the girl and attempted to kidnap her. Police also seized the car, which was used for kidnapping.
Sources said a team of medical staffers, which included a doctor and a pharmacist and one nurse of Raiboga Primary health centre, had conducted an eye check up camp at Raiboga Primary School on Thursday. After the camp was over at about 2 pm, they had left that place and were returning in a Bolero vehicle when a youth coming from the front side in another car intercepted them and terrorised them.
The youth reportedly forced the nurse to his car and fled in that car towards Biramitrapur area. Some locals coming to know about the incident informed Biramitrapur IIC KS Acharya.
According to sources, a police team from Biramitrapur chased the car but the culprit was successful in crossing the Odisha - Jharkhand border check gate and also the Bansjor police outpost and was on the way of Ranchi road. The Biramitrapur police team, after chasing about 60 km crossed the accused’s vehicle and intercepted him. The accusedyouth and his car were taken back to Biramitrapur.
The accused youth was identified as Sourav Kumar Sahoo. Sahoo had come in contact with the girl about eight years back when she was pursing her nursing course at Bhubaneswar. The victim nurse on her FIR had alleged that Sahoo had forcing her to marry him but she did not budge.