Four arrested in Jowai kidnapping case
JOWAI: Ladrymbai Police in East Jaintia Hills arrested four persons including three women in connection with the kidnapping of a girl, Iammi Pakma (4) of Ladrymbai Khliehdupon eight months ago. The Police with the help of HNPF members rescued the girl from a couple who had bought the girl for Rs 20,000 from Namdong village in West Jaintia Hills on Thursday evening.
The arrested persons were identified as Iohka alias Sita Saioo of Priang village who is the main accused, Melty Langstang who has helped Saioo to find a good customer, Tipki Rynjah of Namdong village and her husband, Evening Dkhar of Wapungskur who bought the girl. Ladrymbai Police are interrogating all the arrested persons.
According to girl’s father, Skot Mukhim, Sita Saioo was very friendly with his wife- a vegetable vendor as she used to buy vegetables from his wife.
On April 1, his daughter went missing and after a week later he got a phone called demanding Rs 30 crore for her release not 3 crore as reported in media.
After some days they come down to 20 crore and 230 lakh and at last to Rs. 3 lakh which the father failed to pay.
“I could not pay as I have never seen even Rs. 10, 000. As I could not pay the ransom, they (the caller) threatened to kill my daughter live over phone so that I could hear her scream”, Mukhim said.
Police informed that after the girl was kidnapped by Iohka (Sita) Saioo, Deibor Sutnga and his accomplice who is a Bengali Muslim working as coalmine supervision took advantage and called up the girl’s father asking him a ransom of 30 crore for her release.
Police in East Jaintia Hills laid traps to arrest the callers and after sometime they were able to nab and arrest both Deibor Sutnga and his friend From Mynthlu village and Byndihati respectively.ince both of them are opportunists taking advantages of the kidnapping, despite their arrest, they could not provide accurate information on the whereabouts of the girl which has also created another obstacle for the police to trace out the girl.
The father of the girl took help of the HNPF in Ladrymbai who also followed up the case and apprehended Sita Saioo who revealed that she had sold the girl to Tipki Rynjah and Evening Dkhar.
Members of HNPF and a police team rushed to Nartiang to rescue the girl but on countering Sita, her husband, Dkhar challenged the Police claiming that he has bought the girl and he has the court documents to prove.
The documents shown to the police was a sale deed well drafted by a lawyer in a official Stamp paper. But the Lawyer who has prepared the document failed to put his seal and signature on the official stamp paper except the signature of Sita Saioo, Melty Langstang and Evening Dkhar. Police sources and local people from Wapungskur informed that the sale deeds and agreement was prepared with the help of a Lawyer in Khliehriat known as N Sarkar and has not been registered with the court.