Jammu: A minor boy and a girl, who were allegedly abducted recently, were rescued and two persons arrested, police said here Wednesday.
According to the police, Anirudh Sharma, a Class V student of Army School, Kaluchak, was kidnapped from outside his house in Bari Brahmana of Samba district Monday, shortly after he was dropped by his school van. A complaint in this regard was filed by his father.
“We recovered the boy Wednesday morning and arrested a person in this connection,” DIG of Police, Jammu-Samba-Kathua Range, Sujit Kumar, said. The boy was handed over to the family, he added.
In another case, a girl was rescued from her kidnapper within 24 hours of receiving the complaint in Udhampur district, a police spokesman said. Her family had lodged a complaint at the Udhampur police station Monday that Imtiaz Ahmad, a resident of Maidana village in Poonch, had abducted her.
The spokesman informed that special teams were constituted and the suspect was arrested from Bathindi of Jammu within 24-hours of the abduction. The rescued girl was also handed over to the family after the completion of proper legal procedure, he said.
Meanwhile in another development, the spokesman said the police had reunited 12-year-old, Rakesh Kumar, with his family, Tuesday. His family had lodged a complaint with police Saturday that he had gone missing from their rented accommodation at Rehari in the city, May 2.