Engineer rescued following arrest of Minister's son

DALTONGANJ (BIHAR), NOV. 13. An engineer from the newly-created Chhattisgarh State was rescued following the arrest of the son of Bihar Minister for Labour and Employment, Mr. Chandrashekhar Dubey, police said today.

Two others involved in the kidnapping were arrested and the vehicle used by them recovered during a joint raid conducted by the Palamu and Garwah police yesterday.

Mr. Devendra Prakash Swarnkar, an engineer employed with Northern Coalfields, was kidnapped in October from a place in Vindhya town of Chhattisgarh, the police said.

In the course of investigations police arrested Ajay Dubey, son of the Bihar Labour and Employment Minister on November 1 and based on his statement conducted a raid in Garwah in south Bihar and succeeded in freeing the engineer, the police said.

Two other kidnappers - P. Tiwari and Narendra Pandey - were arrested and the vehicle used by them was recovered from Lalgarh area of Palamu district, the police added.

- PTI

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