In a major breakthrough, the Giridih police on Thursday rescued a local medical practitioner Dasrath Verma son of Tulchand Kumar Verma who was kidnapped on October 6, 2015 from Gurah village under the Birni police station for a ransom `15 lakh. Four people have been arrested while four others are still at large.
The accused have been identified as Sita Ram Verma son of Goverdhan Verma of Mohonodih village of Jamua in Giridih; Sanjay Giri, son of Viswanath Giri, a resident of Jaruadih village in Jamua; Papu Sharma, son of Ruplal Thakur of Chachghara village and Suresh Yadav, son of Amrit Yadav of Serua village under the Gawa police station.
Police also recovered a local made pistol, five mobile sets, one beg, rope and black eye cover from them.
local doctor Dasrath Verma was rescued from Tisari tunnel in Giridih by a team headed by Raj Kumar Mehta, SDPO, Giridih officer in-charge Birni police station Rajiv Ranjan Tisari PS in-charge , Vinod Oraw and Gawa police station in charge Sriniwash Kumar.
The sub-division police officer Raj Kumar Mehta said Dasrath’s father Tulchand Kumar Verma lodged a complaint that his son had gone missing on October 6 .
The doctor was last seen on sleeping in his newly constructed building at Gurah Chock in Birni. Intensive search was launched in the nearby area, but the doctor could not be traced .
The kidnappers made the first ransom call to Dasrath residence on October 7 and demanded `15 lakh for his release. The missing case was then converted into kidnapping case.
After investigation the local police first arrested Sita Ram Verma, Papu Sharma and Sanjay Giri on Thursday at Mohonodih village and their interrogations led to the rescue of Dasrath Verma.
During interrogation, they confessed to having kidnapped Dasrath. A special team was constituted to rescue the doctor. At their instance, police arrested the other one accused and rescued Dasrath from hill of Tisari