Missing Malda student staged kidnap

Subhro Maitra Malda March 6: Fled from house and called the guardians from a mobile to be posed as ‘kidnapped’, but the minor boy finally failed to manage the ‘script’. Subhojit Das (14), a student of Std IX of Bibhuti Bhushan High School did not return from school on 4th of this month after taking his examination.

Worried parents looked for him for the night as well as the next morning. Failed to find him they lodged a complaint to Malda Police Station. Nitai Das, the father who owns a tea stall, complained, “Last night we got a phone call from an unknown number who said my son was taken by a gang for a particular purpose to Delhi and he would return on 10th of April. This has scared us more. We feared the worse like any organ smuggling racket.” It is learnt that the phone came from a place of North 24pgns.

However, getting the complaint police began enquiry taking the clue of the phone number and the description of the missing boy. Finally police managed to locate him. Additional Police Super Kalyan Mukherjee said, “The boy took a false name and convinced a truck driver about his haplessness. He managed to get a job of a helper of the truck and moved away from Malda. We have placed him outside the district and accordingly following his route keeping in touch with other district police.” He hoped to take Subhojit back home within two days.

Meanwhile, three other minor boys of the same area found missing. They were Chandan Mandal and Sujit Mandal, students of Kalachand High School of Std VII and VIII respectively and Suman Pal, a drop out. They were all inhabitants of Mangalbari, Old Malda. However, the complaint of them was not made to police till this morning.