In what has created sensation in the industrial sector of Assam, the police on Friday recovered bullet-ridden bodies of two senior executives working in private sector and public sector who were suspected to have been abducted by Karbi rebels for ransom.
Southern range DIG Binod Kumar told this newspaper that bodies of retired colonel Jatindar Singh Sandhu, who was working as general manager of JP Cement and Ramen Sharma, deputy general manager of Assam Mineral Development Corporation, were recovered from Haskuri village near Umrangshu in Dima Hasao district.
The Umrangshu-based senior officials were abducted by suspected Karbi militants on November 25 from their offices situated near the industrial town of Umrangshu, 120 km from Haflong. The police said that the mutilated bodies of the two executives were recovered on Thursday night from a jungle. Security sources said that Karbi People’s Liberation Tigers (KPLT), a militant outfit active in central Assam, was responsible for the kidnapping. The abductors had demanded `2 crores as ransom for the release of the officials. While Col. Sandhu hailed from Rajasthan, Sharma was a resident of Sivasagar in Assam.
Meanwhile, the police brought bodies of two executives to Haflong civil hospital on Friday for autopsy. Mr Kumar who rushed to the area with additional reinforcement claimed that district police has got some lead and was hopeful of nabbing the culprits soon. So far four people have been arrested, he added. He said that police has launched massive combing operations to arrest the culprits. Security sources said that incident has created panic among the senior executives of industrial units in the area as most of the industrial units are facing threat from Karbi and other rebel groups active in the state.