Inspector at the District Police Office, Saptari, Bhuwaneshwar Sah said the boy was freed from a hut in Belna Chakala where he was confined.[break]
“The abductors fled after the joint team reached the spot,” Sah said. “I would have opened fire at them had it been in Nepal but didn´t as we were across the border. The abductors fled right in front of our eyes,” he added with remorse.
Sah said the seventh grader was persuaded to go to India by his friends while returning home from school in Rajbiraj on January 24 and then handed over to the kidnapping racket there. The boy´s father, Shyam Dev, learnt about his son´s abduction five days later when he received a ransom call demanding Rs 3,000,000.
“The police, who had not bought the idea of abduction initially, became serious only after the ransom calls became more frequent,” said Shyam Dev. Police have arrested one Sagar Sah from Rajbiraj-10 in connection with the case and have initiated investigations.
Twelve children have been abducted from Siraha and Saptari districts in the past seven months. Of those abducted, seven were freed after paying ransom while the five were rescued by the police.
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