National   

Police still clueless about merchant's son

Atiq Khan

LUCKNOW: Twenty-four hours after the kidnapping of a cloth merchant's son, Mohit Chandani, from the busy Aliganj area of Lucknow, the police were still groping in the dark.

The 16-year-old, studying in Class 10 in Brightway School, was abducted by three Indica-borne kidnappers while he was on his way to school.

Bandh by shopkeepers

With the police failing to crack the case, the shopkeepers in Kapurthala market in Aliganj and in most of the trans-Gomti areas observed a daylong bandh in protest against the kidnapping.

On Wednesday, the Director-General of Police, G.L. Sharma, suspended four policemen, including the Station House Officer of Aliganj police station, Sanjay Bajpai, for dereliction of duty.

Political overtones

As the sensational kidnapping gradually assumed political overtones — the Leader of Opposition in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, Lalji Tandon, has given a 24-hour ultimatum to the police to trace Mohit — the Special Task Force of the U.P. police has stepped in to conduct the probe.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Stories in this Section

Deora meets of Iran, Pakistan oil Ministers
Plea by Citizens for Equality to be heard on May 8
Mirwaiz wants roundtable for separatists
Bengal to place report in court
Judge refuses to hear plea against Modi
It will be against Sabarimala tradition, Supreme Court told
Subramanian Swamy to teach at Harvard varsity
Varsities funds: Ministry wants the norms relaxed
Case against Shahabuddin
Sibal alleges fertilizer scam in Uttar Pradesh
`Funds for nuclear projects inadequate'
Don't politicise encounter deaths, says Venkaiah
BSP has the edge after phase V: survey
OBC quota genuine, says Tamil Nadu
Police still clueless about merchant's son
"Another case of fake encounter killing"
"We've done our duty"

Copyright © 2007, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu