Jharkhand doc missing, colleagues strike work

Munda is reported to have assured them that police will do their best in rescuing Sinha. The abducted doctor, who was incharge of the Bishnugarh block PHC, was on the way to Ranchi in his Maruti Alto. ‘‘He was last seen by one of his relatives on the Ranchi-Patna road near Morangi village in Hazaribagh,’’ Hazaribagh SP Neeraj Sinha told mediapersons.

‘‘Since he didn’t turn up home that night, we suspected that he had been kidnapped for ransom. The following day we filed an FIR at the Muffasil police station in Hazaribagh,’’ said a relative, Pradeep Sinha.

Police have taken two into custody but they still haven’t got any leads in the case. ‘‘So far no body has contacted Sinha’s family for ransom,’’ SP Neeraj said.

Sinha is not the first person to be ‘‘kidnapped’’ for ransom in the state. According to their FIR at the Padma police station on February 17, Dr Heeralal Shah was allegedly kidnapped on February 17 when he was returning to Hazaribagh from Patna. Police have failed to resolve several of these kidnapping cases.