Skeleton of abducted Bihar kid found

Patna: The skeleton of yet another schoolboy, who was kidnapped from Patna in November, was recovered from a forest near Koderma in Jharkhand, sending shockwaves across the states.

Dipak Kumar, a 14-year-old student of Class VIII, was kidnapped while he was on his way to the central school from his Kankarbagh residence on November 14, senior superintendent of police Kundan Krishnan said.

According to Krishnan, an investigation revealed that his driver Rampravesh who went to drop him at the school kidnapped Dipak.

Ramprakesh had killed Dipak when he threatened him that he would tell his parents that Ramprakash had kidnapped him.

After much investigation, the Patna police found that the driver had changed his name and was now working with a lawyer here, Krishnan said.

The police arrested Rampravesh on Wednesday and took him to Koderma from where the skeleton and clothes of the kidnapped boy was recovered, Krishnan added. Ramprakesh was then sent to jail.

The police had also found the skeleton of a 19-year-old student, Pravesh Kumar, at Harnaut in Nalanda district on Monday.

Kumar was kidnapped from the Postal Park area under Kankarbagh police station on September 15.

Taking a serious note of the non-recovery of 143 children, who have gone missing from different parts of Bihar over more than five years, the Patna High Court had on January 8 asked the police administration to intensify efforts to recover them and furnish an action taken report within six weeks.

An order was passed in this regard by a Division Bench, comprising Chief Justice J N Bhat and Justice Shailesh Kumar Sinha, while hearing a PIL on the kidnapping of Gaurav Kumar alias Golu, a student of DAV school who was kidnapped in September 2005 but subsequently released.

The state police department had informed the court that as many as 143 children, who had been missing for more than five years, had not still been traced.

Terming the matter as "very serious", the bench had directed the police administration to make concerted efforts for the recovery of the missing children and furnish the action taken report in this regard within six weeks.