Patna: Labour contractor kidnapped from bus stop

PATNA: A Hyderabad based labour contractor Ashok Sah was allegedly kidnapped from bus stand near Mithapur under Jakkanpur police station area in state capital on night of November 6. However, the matter surfaced in media on Friday night.

Sah, in his late 40s, was working a labour supplier for a construction firm in Hyderabad and had reached Patna via train on night on November 6 to return home at Muzaffarpur town for celebrating Diwali and Chhatth.

City SP (east) Rajendra Kumar Bheel said that Sah had a conversation with his wife over cellphone on Tuesday night that he was about to leave for Muzaffarpur.

“At that time, Sah had informed his wife that he had reached Patna from Hyderabad and was at the bus stand,” Bheel said.

“After that Sah did not contacted his family members. When the family members tried to call Sah, they found his cellphone switched off. Finally on night of November 7, the family members approached police station at Jakkanpur and suspected that he was kidnapped,” Bheel said.

He said that after the contractor’s cellphone got switched off, Rs 2 lakh was withdrawn from his bank account using his ATM card.

“Further on, some people had reached a jewellery shop at Biharsharif from where they made additional purchase of Rs 1.5 lakh by using his ATM card again,” the SP said.

When asked, the SP said that till now nothing about any illicit relation had surfaced in connection with the kidnapping. “Probabilities are high that someone known to Sah had taken him to unknown location from the bus stand after which he might have been overpowered. It is impossible that someone would forcefully or on gunpoint kidnap anyone from a crowded place like bus stop,” SP Bheel said.

However, he said that investigations were on and a police team had also went to Biharsharif to gather information that who all had reached there for purchasing jewelleries.

“Police have also gathered CCTV footages of several location and investigations were on. The case might get cracked in next two to three days,” Bheel said.