Ranchi, July 10: Activists belonging to the banned Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) have kidnapped 10 officials of a construction company, including some engineers, from Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh district last night. Confirming the report, R R Prasad, DGP, Jharkhand, said that the kidnapped men were employees of the company Hindustan Constructions Limited. He said a hunt had been launched to trace the abducted men, but there was no breakthrough yet. Police control room sources said that around a 100 armed extremists surrounded the make-shift office at Kosma village in Barkata, about 150 kilometres from the capital Ranchi, late last night and beat up some labourers. Thereafter, they took the officials along with them.
The officials were engaged in road construction work at Kosma. Bureau Report