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ITANAGAR: Arunachal Pradesh police rescued a forest official four hours after his abduction by four persons in West Kameng district, a senior police official said on Tuesday.
Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Bittem Darrang of Rupa forest division was abducted on Monday by four persons. However, police rescued the official within four hours and arrested all the persons involved in the crime, West Kameng Superintendent of Police (SP) Bharat Reddy informed.
The DFO was rescued with assistance from East Kameng police, he said. The persons involved in the abduction have been identified as Michael Tajo (33), Joy Flago (29), Monuruddin Ali (33) and Sicilia Takam Tajo (35), the police official said.
The SP added that on receipt of information from Rupa Range Forest Officer (RFO) about abduction of the DFO from his residence at around 1 pm, the district police formed four teams to conduct searches at the possible routes of travel of the abductors with the captive.
"At around 5 pm, East Kameng SP Rahul Gupta informed that the accused had been detained at the Bana check gate and the DFO was present with them," Reddy said adding, a white Innova vehicle with no number plate was also seized.
"Preliminary questioning has revealed that the motive behind kidnapping was to extort contract(s) from the victim," the SP added.
Meanwhile, the Jering Matkir Society (JMS) has vehemently condemned the abduction of Darang from his official residence. The Society has urged the authority to give exemplary punishment to those culprits involved so that such incidents are never repeated again in the society.
The Society also lauded the effort taken by East Kameng police headed by the SP for taking immediate action and rescuing the DFO within few hours. They also appealed to every section of the society to come forward and condemn such incidents in the strongest form.
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