Cops bring back kidnappers

Mahida was kidnapped from the city on August 5 while he was travelling in his maroon Maruti Esteem GJ 5 FF 8003 and taken straight to Bihar via Nagpur. The kidnappers made a demand of Rs 50 lakhs initially, but then settled for Rs 40 lakhs.

In the meantime, the police traced the kidnappers through calls made by them, and positioned cops at all telephone exchanges connecting Patna to Surat. In a well-executed operation carried out between August 28 and September 1, the city police and the local Bihar police managed to rescue Mahida and make four arrests.

According to top police officials, the primary objective of escorting the four kidnappers back to the city is to find out what local connection they had.

None of the four have worked in the city, so it is only with the help of some local connections that they would have kidnapped Mahida.

Addl CP H P Singh stated on Tuesday evening that intensive interrogation of the four will begin from tomorrow and details will be available thereafter.