Patna: A gang in Bihar tied the hands and feet of a middle-aged woman, gagged her mouth and threw her into a flooded canal after she refused to withdraw a kidnapping case filed against them.
As luck would have it, the passersby noticed the woman battling for life in the canal water and saved her.
The incident took place in eastern Bihar’s Araria district town where she had gone to give her statement to the local court on Thursday.
Police said the victim Meena Devi, wife of Shashi Bhushan Prasad Sah from Kankhudia village in Araria district, had come to a local court to give her statement in regard to the kidnapping of her teenaged daughter on Wednesday. She had filed the case some two months ago.
As the court proceedings went on a bit longer, she stayed with one of her relatives in the evening. According to her, when she was preparing to go to bed, she heard a big bang around midnight and when she came out to find out the cause, she was kidnapped by some six car-borne persons and taken away.
She alleged that in the car the kidnappers asked her to withdraw the case registered against them. But when she refused to oblige, the criminals tied her hands and feet with a rope and threw her into the canal with mouth gagged. However, some villagers noticed her in the canal and saved her from being drowned. Soon they informed the local police who admitted her to the local hospital. Doctors said the woman is safe now.
“Initially, the kidnappers tried forcibly to take my signature on plain paper. When I refused their demand, they tied me and threw me into the canal to kill me. Luckily I survived,” the victim told local police on Friday. The police have launched a manhunt to nab the criminals.
Earlier this month, a gang had gouged out the eyes of a man and beat him to death in Begusarai district after he had refused to withdraw a kidnapping case. Last year in Darbhanga district, a gang had chopped off the right arm of an eight-year-old girl who was the main witness in the kidnapping of her four-year-old brother.
