TURA: A gang of criminals have abducted a six-year-old boy from his house after locking up the parents on Wednesday night in Dangkong village of North Garo Hills.
A group of five unidentified men came to the house of one Inderswell Sangma around midnight asking for water and telling them to open their door. Both Inderswell and his wife are teachers.
The men who had their faces concealed demanded that Inderswell give them a lift in his car to a location of their choice. When he refused they took away his car keys and entered the room where his six-year-old son was asleep. They pushed the parents to another room and bolted the door from the outside before taking away the little boy and fleeing in Inderswell’s car (AS 16-6666) towards the Assam border.
The car was found abandoned near Nalbari village, on the Assam side of the border, the same morning. A note was left behind with a phone number for the family to contact the group.
“We suspect it to be the handiwork of a criminal gang led by one Mithun Sangma of Menadoba village. Our police teams are out on operation to try locate the child and bring him back safely,” said district police chief Dalton Marak.
Student and social groups of North Garo Hills led by the Garo Students’ Union, the AAYF and the Joint Public Action Committee have rallied in support of the family and called upon the group behind the abduction to release the little boy unharmed.
