Operation Khoj a success: Ohatker

hajipur: "operation khoj", which was launched in different districts of bihar to check the frequent incidents of kidnapping and smash the networks of kidnappers, yielded highly positive results in vaishali district. vaishali sp shobha ohatker claimed that under the campaign, four gangs of kidnappers enjoying political patronage were identified and their networks destroyed."under the operation khoj, which was launched in october 2001, as many as 27 notorious hardcore professional kidnappers were arrested by the vaishali police and the properties of eight kidnappers were seized," she said. even before the launch of operation khoj, the vaishali police had cracked down on the identified gangs of kidnappers and about 10 kidnapped persons had been rescued. ohatker claimed that a record 4,730 criminals had been arrested by the vaishali police, including 1,500 hardcore ones, between january 2001 and the completion of operation khoj. besides, about 160 illegal firearms were seized from the arrested kidnappers during the operation khoj. and anti-crimes drive during 2001-2002, the sp said.