Patna: 6-year-old kidnapped from city recovered

PATNA: The six-year-old boy kidnapped for ransom from Patna was recovered from the Maoist-infested Pahartali under Piri Bazaar police station area in Lakhisarai on Friday.
Krishiket Kumar was kidnapped from his residence near Kumhrar Talab in Daudbigha under Agamkuam police station area in Patna on Wednesday evening. His parents reported the matter to police on Thursday after which they swung into action.
City SP (east) Jitendra Kumar said the police recovered the boy before any ransom calls could be made to his parents and arrested the kidnapper, identified as Manoj Mandal of Mahadev Nagar in Katihar.Krishiket is the son of Mandal’s houseowner Sujeet Yadav.
SP Kumar said Mandal had kept the boy hostage at the residence of one of his cousins, Pankaj Pal, at Pahartalli. He said Krishitesh’s father is a private school bus driver but he has a an immovable property at Daudbigha.
“Mandal had recently come to know about Yadav’s property and hatched the conspiracy to kidnap his son,” he said.
Kumar said even though the child was recovered from Pal’s residence, he was not arrested. “Pal is blind and didn’t have any knowledge about the kidnapped child being kept at his house,” he said.
The SP said police suspected Mandal as he was also missing from his rented accommodation. The Patna police contacted the Lakhisarai counterparts and got the lead.
“We raided Pal’s house in the wee hours and found Mandal fast asleep with the child beside him inside the cattleshed,” Piri Bazaar police station SHO Prajesh Kumar Dubey said.
Dubey said the the photographs of both Mandal and the child were sent to Patna police for confirmation. “Both of them have been taken to Patna by a police team which had reached here in the day,” Dubey added.