SGH police crack kidnapping case

TURA: The remarkable efforts made by the police in trying to solve a kidnapping case in South Garo Hills have resulted in a 12-year-old girl finally being able to reunite with her family after six long years along with the arrest of none other than her kidnapper.
Riksilchi Marak from Papa Asakgre under Chokpot was six years old when her cousin along with her husband Dibesh Sangma kidnapped her back in 2013. The kidnapping couple also absconded from their home in the same village and all efforts to trace them by the family and police were unsuccessful.
Police sources informed the media that it was only in the past week when the couple returned home without the child were they able to take action and took them in for questioning after which they revealed that the girl was working as a maid in Byrnihat.
With the location of the victim revealed police along with the child’s father set out to Byrnihat and brought her back home.
According to police, the victim was rescued from a family residing in a Garo dominated locality in Byrnihat. The family she had been living with too her in after witnessing the ill-treatment she had received from the kidnappers.
One of the kidnappers Dibesh Sangma was immediately arrested but police have differed from arresting the wife as she is seven months pregnant and is already a mother of three young children.
However, cases have already been filed against the accused.