SHILLONG/MAWKYRWAT: The 18-year-old boy who was kidnapped from South West Khasi Hills last month was rescued in Bangladesh on Monday, the district police said. One of the kidnappers was arrested.
A group of around seven suspected Bangladeshi nationals kidnapped Dajied Kynshai Syiemlieh, a petty worker in a mine, from Nongjri-Umsur in South West Khasi Hills on April 27. Syiemlieh is from Mairang.
South West Khasi Hills SP Herbert Lyngdoh said after a series of trans-border intelligence inputs shared with SPs of Mymensing, Netrakona and Sherpur districts in Bangladesh in the past three weeks, Bangladesh police conducted raids at Kolchanda village in Sherpur on Monday and rescued the boy from the kidnappers. Two kidnappers managed to escape and one was arrested.
“The boy is in safe custody of Sherpur police and we are in the process of bringing him back to his family,” Lyngdoh said and added that the rescue operation could be successful due to the coordinated efforts of South West Khasi Hills police, the Special Cell in Shillong and Sherpur SP Rafiqur Hasan Ghani.
The teenager was abducted from the depot of Kynsai Dkhar, a coal trader from Jaintia Hills, at Umsur.
The police here are trying to get the custody of the arrested Bangladeshi miscreant.
