08-20-2005, 06:55 PM
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Jammu, August 17: Police have launched an operation to find out the whereabouts of two missing Hindu youths, who were abducted by the militants from Atholi in Kishtwar tehsil of Doda district on August 11.
According to sources, on August 11 three youths from the village Atholi were grazing their sheep near Paddar, when the militants passing through the area asked them to accompany.
Sources said that while they asked the Hindu youth one of them identified as Bodh Raj to carry their luggage and instructed the Muslim youth identified as Mohi-ud-din to prepare food by reaching in advance to their next halt.
Sources said that when militants reached the place where Mohi-ud-din was preparing the food, the two of the Hindu youth were not with them. When Mohi-ud-din asked them about the whereabouts of two youth, he was told by militants that they have released them.
Later, when Mohi-ud-din reached the village, he found that two youths have not returned to the village since their abduction. After getting suspicious about the well-being of the abducted youth, on August 14 Mohi-ud-din narrated the whole incident to the police personnel at one of the Police Post near Paddar.
This message reached to the police authorities at district Doda on August 15 and by August 16 police launched a earch operation to find out the whereabouts of abducted youth. Till the filing of this report, the operation was on with no success to the search party.
When contacted, Satvir Gupta, DIG Udhampur-Doda range said that major search operation is in progress to trace the abducted youth. Ruling out the possibility that these youth were abducted for arms training, Gupta said that militants have abducted them to carry their load. He, however, said that it has not been identified that which militant organisation have abducted the youth.
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Jammu, August 17: Police have launched an operation to find out the whereabouts of two missing Hindu youths, who were abducted by the militants from Atholi in Kishtwar tehsil of Doda district on August 11.
According to sources, on August 11 three youths from the village Atholi were grazing their sheep near Paddar, when the militants passing through the area asked them to accompany.
Sources said that while they asked the Hindu youth one of them identified as Bodh Raj to carry their luggage and instructed the Muslim youth identified as Mohi-ud-din to prepare food by reaching in advance to their next halt.
Sources said that when militants reached the place where Mohi-ud-din was preparing the food, the two of the Hindu youth were not with them. When Mohi-ud-din asked them about the whereabouts of two youth, he was told by militants that they have released them.
Later, when Mohi-ud-din reached the village, he found that two youths have not returned to the village since their abduction. After getting suspicious about the well-being of the abducted youth, on August 14 Mohi-ud-din narrated the whole incident to the police personnel at one of the Police Post near Paddar.
This message reached to the police authorities at district Doda on August 15 and by August 16 police launched a earch operation to find out the whereabouts of abducted youth. Till the filing of this report, the operation was on with no success to the search party.
When contacted, Satvir Gupta, DIG Udhampur-Doda range said that major search operation is in progress to trace the abducted youth. Ruling out the possibility that these youth were abducted for arms training, Gupta said that militants have abducted them to carry their load. He, however, said that it has not been identified that which militant organisation have abducted the youth.
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