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Minister`s nephew remains traceless, banks observe bandh
Patna, July 28: Functioning of banks were badly hit in Patna and Rohtas today, while western parts of the state capital here observed bandh to protest against the kidnapping of eight-year-old nephew of a Bihar minister, Raghvendra Pratap Singh and a bank manager in Bihar.
Patna, July 28: Functioning of banks were badly hit in Patna and Rohtas today, while western parts of the state capital here observed bandh to protest against the kidnapping
of eight-year-old nephew of a Bihar minister, Raghvendra Pratap Singh and a bank manager in Bihar.
All shops and business establishments in Ashiana Nagar
and Sheikhpura areas in the state capital were closed and
vehicular traffic was seen plying in depleted numbers.
Schools too were closed, official sources said claiming that the bandh was peaceful.
Siddhant Parmar, nephew of Singh and son of a bank employee, Sanjay Singh and a bank manager R D Sharma were abducted from Patna and Sasaram on July 24.
They were untraced on the 5th day today.
The police was conducting raids at different locations in and around the state capital to trace Siddhant Parmar, but so far no significant progress has been made, the city Superintendent of Police, O N Bhaskar, told.
The decision to observe a bandh by bankmen was taken at a meeting of the United Forum of Banks' Union, the president of Bihar unit of SBI Officers' Association president, Aniruddh Akhauri, said here today.
Charging the state government with failing to check the rising cases of kidnapping, the main opposition party BJP has given the call for a bandh at Ashiana Nagar and adjoining areas.
Schools too were closed, official sources said claiming that the bandh was peaceful.
Siddhant Parmar, nephew of Singh and son of a bank employee, Sanjay Singh and a bank manager R D Sharma were abducted from Patna and Sasaram on July 24.
They were untraced on the 5th day today.
The police was conducting raids at different locations in and around the state capital to trace Siddhant Parmar, but so far no significant progress has been made, the city Superintendent of Police, O N Bhaskar, told.
The decision to observe a bandh by bankmen was taken at a meeting of the United Forum of Banks' Union, the president of Bihar unit of SBI Officers' Association president, Aniruddh Akhauri, said here today.
Charging the state government with failing to check the rising cases of kidnapping, the main opposition party BJP has given the call for a bandh at Ashiana Nagar and adjoining areas.