Patna, July 6: A 13-year-old boy, who went missing from his house on July 2, is suspected to have been kidnapped. The family of the teenager got a call for ransom last evening.
Ajay Kumar, a student of Class VII at the Railway High School in Danapur told his mother Manju Devi, a Grade-IV railway employee working with the Rail Mandal Hospital in Danapur, that he was going out for some work and will return soon. However, he didn’t return and the family lodged a missing case with the Khagaul police station the next day.
Ajay lived with his mother at Medical Colony in Khagaul, as his father had passed away, the police said. According to the FIR, Manju received the first phone call on July 4. The caller had then allowed Ajay to talk to her mother.
During the conversation, Ajay told his mother he was in Surat and will return home soon. But the caller then took away the phone from Ajay and started abusing Manju.
The caller had again called the next day, this time, asking for a ransom of Rs 2 lakh. The caller threatened that the boy would be killed if Manju fails to cough up the money.
Additional superintendent of police, Khagaul, Harpreet Kaur said at present, it could not be ascertained whether it was a case of kidnapping for ransom.
“According to the FIR, the boy had called his mother stating he was in Surat. Manju said that Ajay was weak in studies and he used to be scolded too. The police are probing the case and all the aspects are being investigated. The phone number from which the call was made is switched off at the moment. However, it was a Bihar number and the police are on a lookout for the caller,” the officer said.
Police sources said a team of policemen has been formed and they were trying to recover the boy. Sources added that there is a possibility that someone known to the family might have kidnapped the boy.
“All the angles are being looked at. It is possible that someone known to the family might have abducted Ajay. There is also a possibility that the boy might have left the house at his own will and was now playing a ploy. There have been similar cases like this before,” another police officer said.
