In a dramatic development the director of the Star Cement Ltd who was reported to have been abducted by militants was released in the late evening in Shillong.
The security sources said that director of the company Narendra Nimotia who had gone missing from a Dhaba near Jorabad in Assam has called up their family members at about 9 pm on Thursday to inform that he has been released by his abductors near Shillong and reaching Guwahati.
The security sources said that they are waiting for his arrival to Guwahati. Meanwhile, mystery has shrouded the kidnapping incident as in a similar missing case, two businessmen were reported to have been missing since Sunday but they themselves came back on Wednesday claiming that their abductors released them.
Two businessmen Bishnu Kedia and Sanjay Agarwal, both were abducted while they were coming back from their dairy on Sunday but on Wednesday police claimed that intense pressure of the security forces forced the abductors to release the businessmen.
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Constable body yet to be found
age correspondent
Patna
The wife of policeman Abhay Yadav, Rajni Devi, who had been sitting outside Mr Nitish Kumar’s residence in Patna along with her three children and the relatives of the other three policemen for two days, was forcibly taken away to a hospital Thursday morning for treatment even though she claimed she was not ill. She was in a Patna hospital unaware of her husband’s killing by Maoists and was only told later about it.
Yadav’s body had not been found by police looking for it in Lakhiserai and Jamui by the time this report was filed. The Kajra hills in Lakhiserai, where the Maoists are believed to be camping, have been cordoned off to prevent their escape, said sources.