Twenty-year-old tribal girl and a student of
St Xavier’s College, Kolkata on Wednesday surrendered before the Bistupur police after making an abortive bid to extort `4 lakh as ransom from the parents of a six-year-old girl student, whom she had picked up from outside the loyola School premises in Bistupur on Tuesday afternoon. The abductor was also a former
student of loyola School.
The victim, Sarin Kandulna, was released safely late on Tuesday evening after police nabbed abductor, Jyoti Barla.
The police disclosed the incident to the media at a Press conference addressed by the senior SP Anoop T Mathew late on Tuesday night.
Mathew said that they got a complaint from the victim girl’s father, Sawan Kandulna, that his daughter, Sarin, who is a student of UKG at loyola has been abducted from the school.
Sawan also informed that his wife Binita has got a call from a mobile- 9334527248 on which a lady informed that Sarin was in their custody and if they wanted her life, then they would have to pay `4 lakh as ransom.
Mathew said since the matter involved life of a child they kept it under wraps. The police had sent Kandulnas with a bag of containing Rs 1 lakh to the spot near Tata Steel Zoological Park gate as dictated by the criminals.
Soon a team of police officials rushed to the spot and found the victim, but there was no trace of anyone else.
“We worked as a team and nabbed the girl’s father Pavan Barla late in the night. Subsequently, the accused Jyoti surrendered before the police at about 2 am today,” said the senior SP. According to information, at the loyola School the victim was waiting for an auto-rickshaw to pick her up, but as the auto-driver did not turn up on time and very few students were left on the premises, the accused Jyoti rode her scooter near the school and picked up the victim by offering her an ice-cream.
Notably, Kandulnas belong to a middle class family. Sawan Kandulna works as a crane operator in Tata Motors limited, wife Binita is a clerk at the Bank of Baroda’s, Golmuri branch.
A senior police officer said that one of the CCTV cameras had the footage of the student and the abductor.