Agartala Dec 2 (IANS) Six surrendered militants were arrested on Saturday in connection with the kidnapping of four Tripura Gramin Bank (TGB) officials who returned home on Friday -- a week after their abduction police said.
"Acting on specific information we have arrested six surrendered militants today (Saturday) in connection with the kidnapping of four bank officials. Two of them arrested from here two from Mungiakami in western Tripura s Khowai district and two from Amarpur in southern Tripura s Gomati district " a police official said.
He said that a vehicle some mobile phone sets and Rs 1.35 lakh were recovered from the two arrested from Agartala.
"All of them will be produced in a local court on Sunday in Gomati district headquarters Udaipur and a TI (test identification) parade before the bank officials will be conducted " the official said.
All the six former terrorists had surrendered a few years back.
Earlier the police said TGB s Taidu Branch Manager Tanumoy Bhattacharjee 30 Sujit Chandra Dey 28 Raktim Bhowmik 31 and Subrata Debbarma 32 were abducted on November 24 night by miscreants while returning by their vehicles to Agartala through Teliamura.
The miscreants released the hostages on Thursday night and they returned home the next day.
Raktim Bhowmik told the media that his Bhattacharjee s and Dey s families together paid Rs 51 000 to the miscreants as ransom for their release.
--IANS
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