Aizawl: Fairul Haque, a resident of Assam and one of the three accused in the kidnap of a 3-year-old girl, was arrested on Thursday, police said in a statement.
The statement said an information was received at Lawngtlai police station that a woman from Bagha in Assam’s Cachar district was beaten up and thrown out of a car at Thingkah village in south Mizoram’s Lawngtlai district by one Khairul Hoque Laskar from the same town and two other persons from Assam.
The incident occurred on Tuesday.
The three accused also kidnapped the woman’s 3-year-old daughter and ran away with Rs 1.5 lakh cash belonging to her, the statement said.
Acting on the information, the Lawngtlai police station team immediately launched an investigation into the incident and after relentless investigation, the car was recovered on the roadside about 5 km away from Thingfal village in Lunglei district on Tuesday midnight, it said.
Thereafter, all police stations in Mizoram and Cachar district were alerted.
After intense search, Fairul Haque was arrested on Thursday in Cachar district with the help of Cachar police, it said. The kidnapped child has also been reunited with her relatives in Cachar, it said.
The statement further said that all out efforts are rigorously being undertaken to arrest the other two accused.