Patan, July 27: Police today raided the official residence of expelled Samata MLA Sunil Pandey and detained ten persons, including Pandey's two brothers, in connection with kidnapping of a bank manager and a coal merchant from Bihari's Rohtas district. "Police raided the residence of Pandey on Bailey road in Patna this morning on suspicion of the MLA's involvement in kidnapping of a coal merchant near new Delia area and Punjab National Bank, Etmaha, manager R B Sharma on July 25 and detained Pandey's two brothers among ten persons," city superintendent of police O N Bhaskar told reporters here. Pandey is currently lodged in Beur jail in the capital in connection with the abduction of a Hajipur-based doctor Gajendra Mohan Sinha last year. His name also featured in the kidnapping of prominent city neuro-surgeon Dr Ramesh Chandra, who got released from a village in Patna district in may this year. Bureau Report.