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Bihar's Director General of Police Neelmani confirmed that the three policemen have been freed by the Maoists and they are safe and healthy. |
The hostage crisis in Bihar finally came to an end with the Maoists releasing the three Bihar policemen on Monday, eight days after they were abducted from Lakhisarai district. Bihar's Director General of Police Neelmani confirmed that the three policemen have been freed by the Maoists and they are safe and healthy. "All the three kidnapped policemen have been released by the Maoists from the Kajra-Chanan forest in Lakhisarai district after the police sealed the escape routes of the ultras in the forests and hills," he said. The three policemen -- sub-inspectors Rupesh Kumar and Yadav, BMP havildar Ehtesham Khan -- were released in Lakhisarai district of Bihar. The policemen were found in a Tata Safari at 6.30 am on Monday in Lakhisarai. They have been escorted to Patna.
The release comes three days after the bullet-riddled body of Lucas Tete, another abducted policemen, was found near a forest in Lakhisarai district. He had been killed by the Maoists. The Maoist had on August 29 kidnapped the four Bihar policemen, including Tete after the encounter in Kajra police station area which left eight policemen dead. The bullet-riddled body of Tete was on Friday recovered from Lakhisarai as the Maoist deadline for killing three remaining hostages expired with security forces intensifying operations to rescue them. A leaflet too had been recovered from near the body in which Maoists claimed to have killed the havildar and threatened that the other three held captive by them would also meet the same fate if the state government failed to release eight of their jailed colleagues, official sources had said.
The release comes three days after the bullet-riddled body of Lucas Tete, another abducted policemen, was found near a forest in Lakhisarai district. He had been killed by the Maoists. The Maoist had on August 29 kidnapped the four Bihar policemen, including Tete after the encounter in Kajra police station area which left eight policemen dead. The bullet-riddled body of Tete was on Friday recovered from Lakhisarai as the Maoist deadline for killing three remaining hostages expired with security forces intensifying operations to rescue them. A leaflet too had been recovered from near the body in which Maoists claimed to have killed the havildar and threatened that the other three held captive by them would also meet the same fate if the state government failed to release eight of their jailed colleagues, official sources had said.
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