Two Bihar students rescued; prayer, stir continue for rest

Rajnish and Rahul, students of standard X, were abducted by unidentified gunmen from Muzaffarpur town when they were going to school on December 16.

“The kidnappers forced the boys to take sedatives most of the time and kept them inside a room while holding them captive at the village”, Lodha said.

Meanwhile in Patna, protests persevered unabated with students offering mass prayers and a group of women continuing their relay fast for the release of school children kidnapped from different parts of the state.

“The Gandhian way of protests by the women and students would continue to press for release of the kidnapped students,” convenor of a social organisation Oxygen, which is coordinating the protests, Vinod Singh told PTI.

Singh claimed the women continued to stage relay fast at the office of the ngo while students offered mass prayers on their school campuses.

“As the final examinations are drawing close, we have advised the students to carry fruits for lunch to their schools,” Singh said. The students had earlier altogether stopped taking tiffins as a mark of protest.

Ten people, including mother and sister of Vicky, a close associate of gangster Chunnu Thakur, now lodged in Hajipur jail, have already been taken into custody in connection with the kidnapping of Kislay, a student of dps, from near his Patel Nagar residence while going to board the school bus on January 19.

Ravikant, a student of dav Public School, Biharsharif, was kidnapped on January 24, while Dipak Kumar, another student of dav Public School, Bhagalpur, went missing a day later.

Ranjan Kumar, a fourth standard student of Diamond Public School suspected to have been kidnapped on January 28, also remained traceless.