Chausa PACS chairman’s son kidnapped from Patna

PATNA: Unidentified persons allegedly kidnapped the 19-year-old son of Chausa primary agriculture credit society (PACS) chairman Manoj Kumar Singh from Sai Temple area under Patliputra police station in the state capital on Thursday evening.
Manoj reached here from Chausa on Friday and lodged an FIR with Patliputra police station in this connection.
The victim was identified as Manish Ranjan.He had reached Patna from his native Chausa in Buxar district for writing JEE Main exam at a centre located in Patliputra industrial area, according to the FIR lodged by Manoj.
Manish, after coming out of the exam centre, had informed his father that he would stay at a rented accommodation of his friend Raghvendra Singh at Indrapuri and would return home on Friday.
Manish was moving on foot with Raghvendra after eating at a roadside eatery near the temple when a car approached them and kidnapped Manish after thrashing his friend.
It was Raghvendra who called Manoj’s nephew at Chausa informing him about the kidnapping around 7.30pm. Manish had made a call to his father around 5.30pm.
Manoj also mentioned in the FIR that at around midnight, he received a call from an unknown number and his son on the other side said he was in a train and reaching Ara. However, he failed to reach that number again when he rang back.
Patna SSP Upendra Sharma said investigation was on to trace the victim assuming that the boy was kidnapped.
Meanwhile, the victim’s father told TOI over phone that police had detained Raghvendra and was quizzing him. “Patliputra police station SHO Kamleshwar Prasad Singh told me that raids were being carried to recover my son,” Manoj said.