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        Five-year-old Bihar child, abducted for Rs. 25-crore ransom, rescued from Nepal
Katihar, Bihar, Aug 8 (IBNS) : A five-year-old Bihar girl, who was kidnapped to Nepal for a ransom of Rs. 25 crore, reunited with her parents on Monday morning after a a former parliamentarian's son revealed her whereabouts to the police, NDTV reported.
Bhanu Agarwal, a prominent businessman of Katihar, and his wife rushed to the Nepal border late on Sunday night with senior police officers, where their daughter Sparsh was abducted as she was on her way home from school.
Sparsh was in her school bus when two men told the driver that her parents had asked them to collect her because they needed her at home in a hurry, NDTV said.
The abductors rode away with Sparsh on a motorcycle and then moved her to a Tata Sumo which crossed into Nepal. The child was kept near Viratnagar in Nepal.
Two days later, the Agarwals received a ransom call for 25 crores; it was later traced to the cellphone of Santosh Yadav, whose father, Naresh Yadav is a former parliamentarian and a Congress leader, the report said.
After his arrest, Santosh provided information that helped identify where Sparsh was being kept. The Nepal police then escorted the child to the border.
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