Bihar: Seven-year-old boy abducted from school bus in Madhepura; probe on

Five bike criminals kidnapped the seven-year-old son of a businessman at gunpoint from his school bus in Bihar’s Madhepura on Tuesday morning.

The other children on the school bus are said to have identified one of the criminals and police have launched a massive manhunt to track down the child.

“The bus from a private institute in Alamnagar was on its way to the school with 40 children. As it approached Karma Chowk, five criminals on two bikes forced the driver to stop the bus and forcibly took the child away,” investigation officials said.

The child, an upper kindergarten student, is the son of Rakesh Sah, a local businessman and resident of Fulaut.

“My son left for school as usual around 6.30 am and within half an hour I was informed about the incident. We rushed to the spot and the other children in the bus claimed to have identified one of the kidnappers as his neighbor Raja Kumar,” Sah said.

“We have no enmity with the family,” the father claimed, although he did not rule out the possibility of a ransom demand.

Sah has filed an FIR at Puraini police station.

“We are investigating the incident from all possible angles and our main focus is the safe return of the child,” said police inspector Vasudev Roy.