Kumar Rajiv Nayan
Ara : Police, acting on a tip off, recovered a teenage girl from near Ramana Maidan at Ara under Nawada police station in Bhojpur district, on June 19, 2018, and arrested one of her kidnapers Umesh Paswan. Plice brought the girl over to Ara Sadar Hospital for medical examination.
SHO, Nawada police station, said that the girl, a student of Class VIII, of village Basauri under Udwantnagar police station in Bhojpur district, was allegedly in love with Umesh Paswan of the same village. On May 13, 2018, Umesh Paswan with the help of his friend Dharmveer Giri kidnapped the girl with a promise to marry her and took her to Sasaram in Rohtas district. They kept her in a room where both allegedly raped her daily, the SHO said. Her family members searched for her everywhere and when they failed to locate her, they filed a named FIR with Udwantnagar police station against Umesh Paswan and Dharmveer Giri.
The SHO said that he got information that the girl was seen near Ramana Maidan along with her lover. He immediately swung into action and recovered her and arrested her lover Umesh Paswan. He said that after medical examination it was detected that she was pregnant. The SHO said that police were searching for Dharmveer Giri and hoped that he would be arrested very soon.