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A seven-year-old girl, who was kidnapped for ransom from outside her home in West Bengal's Malda district, was rescued by police after an operation of four-and-a-half hours. The girl's father also received a call from the kidnappers, threatening harm should the police be informed. Upon receiving a complaint from the girl's father, who is a business person in the city, …

Two young children were kidnapped from their home in Belagavi town in Karnataka’s Belagavi district, on Wednesday afternoon. The children, siblings Swati and Vyam Desai aged four and three respectively, had returned from school and were with their grandmother, when they were abducted by unknown individuals in a Maruti Swift car. The police were alerted by the children’s grandmother, leading …

The Manipur Police on Saturday morning rescued a student of DM College of Science in Imphal and arrested eight alleged kidnappers along with weapons, during a search operation at Yumnam Huidrom village in Imphal West district. Superintendent of Police of Imphal West Shivakanta Singh said, "After being informed about the abduction of the student, Laishram Chinglen Singh, 22, police carried …

ANANTAPUR: The Nandyal district police busted an 11-member interstate abduction gang and seized Rs 40 lakhs in cash and three cars after rescuing the victims on Friday. Police said the gang led by Suresh of Gooty area hatched the plan to abduct Nagi Reddy and his son Vinayaka to extract a huge sum from them. The kidnappers demanded Rs 4 …

Police in Haryana’s Panchkula district rescued a young man who was held hostage by three kidnappers for a ransom of Rs 31 lakh. Amit, a resident of sector-7 in Panchkula, told the authorities that the incident took place at the home of one Anil, who Amit said is a suspended officer of Maharashtra Police. They held Amit hostage and ordered …

A 26-year-old Navy sailor who had been abducted in Chennai on January 30 was set on fire by the kidnappers in jungles of Maharashtra’s Palghar district and he died of injuries, the police said on Saturday. Suraj Kumar Dubey, the victim, died while he was being shifted to hospital in Mumbai on Friday, district police said. Dubey, who hailed from …

A 10-year-old boy who was kidnapped two days back in Kasganj district of Uttar Pradesh was found brutally murdered on Wednesday. The incident was reported from Pithanpur village under the Sidhpura area of Kasganj, where the 10-year-old boy, Lokesh was kidnapped in broad daylight two days ago. The police had also started a search operation but could not recover the …

The Dakshina Kannada police have cracked the kidnapping case of a eight-year old boy whose abductors sought ransom in bitcoins, the police said. The boy was traced in Kurnahosahalli hamlet in Maluru of Kolar district, which is 54 kms from tech hub Bengaluru and he was reunited with his family in Belthangady, said the police. The police said that at …

5-month-old Kidnapped from Home in Assam's Cachar District, Body Found Buried in Jungle

The body of a five-month-old baby, allegedly kidnapped from home while his parents were asleep, was recovered from a jungle in Assam's Cachar district, police said on Saturday. The body was dug out in the jungle in the Rangirghat area on Friday and sent for postmortem to the Silchar Medical College and Hospital, they said. Three persons have been arrested …