The Palamu and Garhwa Police in a joint drive rescued the kidnapped JE of Ramkanda block Chandrashekhar Pandey on the Nawadeeh mine locality on Thursday night. The kidnapped JE was in good health and had little impact of kidnapping trauma. The JE was abducted on July 7 while he was returning from Ramkanda block where he is posted as JE MGNREGA.
Bike of JE Chandrshekhar Pandey is still missing. Confirming this release and rescue of JE by the police of Palamu and Garhwa DIG of police Palamu Saket K Singh said that the kidnapping was done by some new criminal group that has sprung up there. He ruled out any naxal hand in it. The DIG said five people have been detained for interrogation.
Saket said that the mobile conversations of these 5 people were intercepted by the police which gave the clue of JE's being hidden in the mine area of Nawadeeh and the police of four police stations of Palamu and Garhwa district searched the hillock where the JE was freed from the kidnappers.
No ransom was paid by the family asserted the DIG but conceded that the kidnappers had demanded one crore of rupees as ransom.Just three weeks back a cashier of the Vananchal Gramin bank at Tateedeeree J Pandey was kidnapped and killed on the same Ramkanda Chainpur stretch where the police had to face extreme public censure.
This kidnapping came as a challenge to the police in Palamu and Garhwa district which left no stone unturned in finding the JE safe and alive. The DIG agreed that this JE's recovery was our prime task and the boys worked hard and made no mistakes. The recovery was done without firing any single shot by the cops. He said the criminals have been identified and would be arrests soon.