Builder’s kidnappers may have fled Gujarat

VADODARA: A day after

builder Chatur Dudhat

gave names of his kidnappers to the police, search operations have begun to track them down.

Dudhat had told the police on Thursday that Chintan Shah and Pankaj Arya, whom he knew since long, had kidnapped him from his

farmhouse in Padra

. Dudhat was thrashed and then released a day later. He said that Shah and Arya were

planning to kill

notorious criminal Aslam Bodiyo.

The police said that it has begun looking for the accused duo who seem to have fled out of the state. “Once we arrest the accused, we will be able to get

exact reasons behind the kidnapping

,” the police said.