A five-year-old girl who was abducted from Bihar's Katihar district last week was today recovered from neighbouring Nepal.
Sparsh Agarwal was recovered today from Sunsari district of Nepal, Additional Director General of Police (Headquarters) Sunil Kumar told reporters.
He said the state police headquarters thanked the Nepal police for the safe recovery of the abducted minor on the basis of inputs provided to them.
The minor girl, daughter of a businessman, was kidnapped from Kurshaila locality of Katihar district while coming back home from school on August 3.
Asked about the arrest of kidnappers, Kumar said hands of a previous driver of the school bus identified as Mithun Paswan have been established in the case and efforts were on to nab him and his associates.
To a question regarding involvement of Sanjay Yadav, son of a former MP Naresh Yadav, the ADG did not give a categorical answer and merely said a few names have surfaced in the course of probe and more evidence is being collected against them in the case.
