Abducted Nitin freed
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, March 06 2013:
After more than 3 months in captivity, Nitin Masih, a man from Indore, Madhya Pradesh, who married a local woman from Kakching and whose whereabouts remained unknown after he was abducted by some unidentified armed persons from Kakching-Pallel Lamkhai area on November 24 last year, was released unharmed in Senapati district today.
Nitin, an x-ray technician by profession, was on a visit to the parental house of his wife when the abduction took place.
Despite strong public protest and demand for his safe release, whereabouts of Nitin remained unknown until he was set free today.
Narrating his ordeal to mediapersons at the quarter of MLA of Kakching A/C Y Surchandra here today, Nitin recalled that on that fateful day of November 24, 2012, he was driving a scooter and going toward the paddy field of his father-in-law when some unknown persons who came in a Maruti van abducted him at gun point.
After dragging him inside the van, the armed abductors injected him drug and he lost consciousness.
When he regained consciousness, he was inside a dark room.
Nitin informed that his abductors spoke Hindi fluently and they gave him proper food regularly during the over 3-month long captivity.
But they also injected him with tranquilizers most of the time.
So he slept nearly the whole day.
However, whenever he got the chance, he told his abductors that he was the sole bread-earner of his family and he could not pay any ransom.
But they told him that he was not the person they wanted to abduct.
Today morning, the abductors took him out of the place in a van and released him near Kangpokpi along National Highway-2, Nitin said, adding that from there he came to Khuman Lampak in a truck and went to one of his friend's place at Porompat.
There, he talked to his wife for the first time after the abductor over phone and then came to the MLA's quarter.