RailEnquiry

KOLKATA: RPF personnel at Santaldih railway station in Jharkhand rescued the five-year-old son of a railway employee and nabbed his kidnapper on Wednesday morning after a railway gangman saw the boy on a train and raised an alarm. The boy is in trauma but otherwise unhurt, said officials.Piyush Paswan, son of Rajkamal Paswan, an electric signal maintainer (ESM), Grade-II, went missing on Saturday afternoon. Inquiry revealed that the boy's school bus had dropped him off outside Malkera station in Katras, Dhanbad, around 1 pm on Saturday. The spot is barely 50 metres from his residence. However, some men in a car reportedly picked up the child from there. A police complaint was lodged."Soon after this, the abductors made ransom calls to the family. They demanded Rs 15 lakh for the boy's release. After much bargaining, the sum was brought down to Rs 2.20 lakh. On Tuesday evening, Paswan was called to a bridge across the Gawai near Bhojudih. Once he got there with the money, Paswan was directed over the cellphone to drop the packet with the cash on the riverbed below. Paswan did so, but there was no news of his son," an SER official in Kolkata said.Around 8 am on Wednesday, when the 68071 Adra-Khanoodih Passenger train reached Santaldih station, an on-duty gangman of the South Eastern Railway's Adra division who recognized Piyush raised an alarm after seeing him with an unknown man on the train. RPF assistant sub-inspector U Sharma and three other personnel nabbed the man accompanying Piyush at once. He was identified as Pankaj Rajwar, a resident of Lakarka village in Katras. A bag containing Rs 2.18 lakh, part of the ransom amount, was also found near the child.