Police rescue West Bengal’s labour supplier

PATNA: A Patna Police team on Saturday rescued an abducted labour supplier of West Bengal, Mukesh Choudhary, from the clutches of kidnappers. He was recovered from the house of one Ritesh Kumar Mishra at village Atepur Patera under Sarai police station in Vaishali district, said SSP Amrit Raj.
The SSP said Choudhary, a resident of Belur in Howrah district, received a call on October 8.The caller told him (Choudhary) that he needed labourers for a factory in Bihar, which would be inaugurated on October 19. Choudhary fell into the trap and reached Patna, and the caller, on the pretext of showing him the site, took him to Atepur Patera and locked him in a room there.
Thereafter, the SSP said, the kidnappers contacted Choudhary’s family members and demanded Rs 20 lakh for his safe release. When the family members said they were unable to pay such a heavy amount, the kidnappers lowered the ransom amount to Rs 8 lakh. The Bali police station of West Bengal contacted Patna Police for the safe release of Choudhary, he said.
The SSP said a police team led by SP (Rural) Manoj Kumar was constituted for safe recovery of the victim. On a tip-off, the team carried out a raid near Patna Junction and arrested three persons from a four-wheeler. The police team recovered Rs 7.95 lakh, the ransom amount paid by the victim’s family, from the arrested persons. Besides, the police team also recovered Rs 35,000 drawn from Choudhary’s account through his ATM card.
Amrit Raj said acting on the revelations made by the arrested persons, the police team carried out a raid at the house of Ritesh Kumar Mishra at village Atepur Patera under Sarai police station in Vaishali district. The kidnappers had planned to eliminate Choudhary.
He said the arrested persons had been identified as Ritesh Kumar Mishra, Ajay Mishra, both residents of Atepur Patera (Vaishali), and Mithilesh Rai, a native of Anwarpur (Vaishali). He said that police recovered over Rs 83 lakh, a four-wheeler, six cellphones, a sedative injection vial, an ATM card and two receipts of amounts drawn from the ATM.