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Abducted students rescued from Uttar Pradesh

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CHANDIGARH: Two students of Seth Jai Parkash Polytechnic College, Damla, who were reportedly abducted on April 29, have been rescued by the Haryana police and handed over to their parents.

An official spokesman said that the two students of Chemical Engineering and Computer Engineering had appeared for their examinations and sought a lift in a Maruti car to reach their hostel. However, they later realised that they had been kidnapped by one Rajesh alias Kala, a resident of Khizrabad.

According to the police, the two students, identified as Shiv Kumar and Aseem, were taken to Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh at dagger-point. When the students did not reach the hostel, the warden lodged a complaint with the Yamunanagar police which launched a search for them.

The Superintendent of Police,Yamaunanagar, Suman Manjari, constituted four teams which were sent to the adjoining areas of Nahan in Himachal Pradesh and Saharanpur in U.P. On a tip- off, the police parties searched in Nahan-Sirmaur, Renuka and Saharanpur.

In the meantime, the abductors demanded a ransom of Rs. 20 lakhs on phone and directed that the amount be delivered at the Yamunanagar railway station. They later demanded that the ransom money should be paid in the bogey of a passenger train which leaves Yamunanagar for Saharanpur. The three alleged abductors got down at a small station near Saharanpur where two of them were nabbed along with the students while the third person reportedly escaped under the cover of darkness.

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