Abducted agent rescued

KOLKATA: A money market agent, who owed several lakhs to investors in the Canning area of South 24-Parganas, was allegedly kidnapped and kept hostage for three days before the Patuli police rescued him and arrested three kidnappers on Sunday.
The victim has been identified as Parimal Biswas, a resident of Patuli. Parimal operates as an agent in South 24-Parganas.
“It was on the night of April 10 that Parimal’s wife Narayani visited Patuli police station and complained that she was getting ransom calls. The caller was demanding Rs 2 lakh from her against the release of her husband,” said police.
“We immediately lodged an FIR. We came to know that Parimal was asked to come near the 45 route bus stand at Patuli from where he was kidnapped. After tracking the calls we found that those were made from Tangrakhali in Canning,” said an officer.
DC (south suburban) Santosh Pandey said they sent a police team to Canning where they contacted the local police for help. The cops first arrested Ashim Naskar (27) from Canning railway station.
“He was nabbed at 12.55am on Sunday. We started questioning the accused and he said that he had held the victim hostage at Canning’s Majherpara. We raided their hideout, rescued Parimal and arrested Iqbal Gayen (25) and gang leader Sudan Haldar alias Sudan Mondal (27),” said Pandey.