The family got him freed after 12 days in an exchange at an undisclosed place in Siraha on the first day of the Nepali New Year. “My son has been released…that also on the auspicious New Year´s Day. It´s the biggest thing for me,” Subash´ father Garib said. [break]
The happy father also thanked the media, especially our sister daily Nagarik, for giving good coverage to the case. “The newspapers would carry front page stories on incidents in Kathmandu only but Nagarik broke that trend. Nagarik is really a newspaper of the citizenry,” he stated.
Chief of Siraha police Sanu Thapaliya expressed his happiness, saying the safe release of Subash was the most important thing. “Police couldn´t reach the place where he was hidden, despite all their efforts,” DSP Thapaliya conceded.
Sources claimed that the family paid a ransom of around Rs 500,000. The kidnappers had initially demanded Rs 5 million and later Rs 3 million.
God saved me: Subash
I was returning home from my elder brother´s home Saturday (April 3) evening when a stranger put me on a motorcycle. The strangers´ group blindfolded me and took me to a house where they gave me supper. They kept me at the house for five days and then started to change the location every night.
They made me walk up to four hours during the night, keeping me blindfolded. They would carry me over rivers and ditches. They would uncover my eyes only for eating meals and warn me to not look around while eating.
Two people were always with me and they would put a pistol to me now and then. They slapped me four times during the 12 days. I had to hide for a whole day under a stack of hay after a police search team came to the village where I was hidden.
They would repeatedly call up my home and ask me to tell my parents to send the ransom immediately. I don´t know anything about the houses and places where I was kept.
I sometimes felt that I would die when they pointed gun at me but God saved me.
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