4 kidnapped officials set free under police pressure: SP

Under pressure from the police, ultras of the People's Liberation Front of India(PLFI) today set free the four abducted persons, including two deputy directors of the Directorate General of Mines Safety, from the jungles in West Singhbhum district, a police officer said here.
Deputy Directors Saket Bharati and B V Satya, Stenographer Mansi Toppo and their driver Nitai Chandra were set free unharmed by the extremists after the security forces surrounded the areas of Sahabada and Roro forests, Superintendent of Police N K Singh said here.
The four men, who were present at the press conference, had been kidnapped around 4 pm yesterday when they went to survey the Roro mines under Muffasil police station, the SP said.

Singh said that the squad led by PLFI's Amar was behind the abduction.
The SP had yesterday said four officials of the Jharkhand Mines Department suspected to have been kidnapped by the Naxalites and that they did not inform the local police station about their visit to the Roro mines.