Tripura DGP
File photo of Tripura DGP AK Shukla briefing the media. Photo credit- Pinaki Das

Tripura DGP AK Sukla on Sunday indicated that more people might fall in police dragnet in the kidnapping case of TGB staffs.

โ€œInvestigation is not completed and we are still in the processโ€, Sukla said.

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โ€œWe had carried our search operation by helicopter also during rescue hours. Altogether nine persons have been arrested so farโ€, he added.

Addressing the media in Agartala on Sunday he said, โ€œWe were very close to the kidnappers and so they changed their location twice. They were in Tripura and the whole state was alerted. We collected information from each and every place and based on the information we placed our cordons, started our searching.โ€

Subrata Debbarma, one of the abducted bank employees, at his home after his release.

โ€œYesterday in very coordinated actions we conducted raids at various places spreading over three districts, Gomati, Khowai and West district and apprehended nine persons involved in this incident, โ€ the DGP said.

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All those arrested were produced before the court and sent to judicial custody.

Though police officially denied that the hostages were released against any ransom, the family members of the released bank employees claimed that they had paid fifty lakhs of rupees as ransom to the abductors.

Sukla informed that some of the arrested persons were surrendered militants.