Darjeeling, Sept. 14: Pravin
Mukhia, a Darjeeling-based architect who has designed the
under-construction Gorkha War Museum, was arrested yesterday for
allegedly kidnapping two 17-year-old girls and confining them to one of
his houses near Siliguri.
Lodhama police
picked him up from the Salbari market and rescued the girls yesterday.
Mukhia, 52, was produced in the chief judicial magistrate’s court today
and remanded in judicial custody till September 28.
Assistant public
prosecutor Pankaj Prasad said Mukhia had been slapped with sections 363,
365 and 368 (kidnapping and confinement against will) of the IPC.
The lawyer said the girls had gone missing from Lodhoma, about 70km from Darjeeling, on September 5.
The girls’ confinement came to light when one of them managed to speak to her friend from Lodhama, he said.
Source: The Telegraph
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