Gaya, March 27: Police have recovered Mohammed Masoor alias Guddu from Tiljala in Calcutta, eight days after he was abducted from Durga Bari locality under the jurisdiction of civil lines police station.
City superintendent of police Ravi Ranjan Kumar said Guddu's uncle Mohammed Maqsood had hatched the conspiracy to abduct him and demanded Rs five lakh as ransom from Guddu's father.
Police also arrested Maqsood's accomplice Mohammed Mukhtar in Calcutta and recovered two cellphones and three SIM cards from their possession.
Gaya City deputy superintendent of police Alok Kumar Singh said officers of the technical cell would be rewarded.
Maoists held
Special Task Force (STF) personnel have arrested seven Maoists from different locations of North Bihar, a day after the rebels attacked a construction company site.
On Saturday, around 30-armed rebels had attacked a makeshift camp of the Hari Construction Company at Turki village, around 60km north of Patna. The company is engaged in doubling of railway tracks on the Muzaffarpur-Hajipur section of East Central Railway.
Superintendent of rail police B.N. Jha said they were interrogating the arrested rebels. Police are looking for Musafir Sahni, a rebel leader who was granted bail last month. Police sources said Rohit Sahni, a rebel commander lodged in Hajipur jail, had planned the attack with the help of Musafir Sahni and Anil Ram.
STF personnel have recovered handwritten notes from the plant that states the rebels had demanded extortion money from the company.
The police headquarters have decided to provide armed forces in every camp of construction agencies working on railway projects in the state. Inspector-general of police (rail) Amit Kumar and Tirhut divisional commissioner Atul Kumar have asked the deputy chief engineer of East Central Railway (Hajipur), Ajay Kumar, to furnish details of ongoing projects that need security.
The director of Hari Construction Company, Sanjiv Kumar, said: "Labourers who had received injuries fled from the construction site. Police are guarding the plant and it will take at least a month to restart work."
Senior superintendent of police Ranjit Kumar Mishra told The Telegraph that armed forces have been deputed at all construction sites in the district.
Additional reporting by Khwaja Jamal in Muzaffarpur
