SHILLONG: Dajied Kynshai Syiemlieh, the 18-year-old boy who was kidnapped from South West Khasi Hills on April 27 and rescued in Bangladesh in May, is still in the custody of Bangladeshi authorities.
The teenager’s father, Rijoising Basaiawmoit, visited the Secretariat on Friday to meet Home Minister HDR Lyngdoh to seek his intervention in expediting the case.
A group of around seven suspected Bangladeshi nationals kidnapped Dajied, a petty worker in a mine, from Nongjri-Umsur in South West Khasi Hills on April 27 and later he was rescued by Bangladeshi police on May 15.
However, the boy till now has not been handed over to his parents in Meghalaya due to various formalities and procedures.
Basaiawmoit said they are continuously taking up the matter with every authority but the process was delayed due to Ramzan and Eid in Bangladesh. He also informed that his son is in the custody of Indian Embassy and his son is healthy.
The Sherpur police in Bangladesh have arrested three persons in this connection after the boy was abducted and later taken to Bangladesh.
Meanwhile, South West Khasi Hills SP Herbert Lyngdoh said the statement of the boy was recorded by Bangladeshi police and the Indian Embassy has already written to the Bangladeshi Ministry of External Affairs to provide an exit visa to the boy to hand him to his families in India.
“We are continuously in touch with all the concerned authorities for his early return back home,” Lyngdoh said.
After a series of trans-border intelligence inputs shared with SPs of Mymensing, Netrakona and Sherpur districts in Bangladesh, police conducted raids at Kolchanda village in Sherpur and rescued the boy from the kidnappers.
The teenager was abducted from the depot of Kynsai Dkhar, a coal trader from Jaintia Hills, at Umsur in South West Khasi Hills.
