A salesman dealing in auto parts who cooked up a tale of abduction to escape from his creditors was arrested by Dimapur police, four days after he was reported as missing from Dimapur.
Based on an FIR filed at East police station that one Shankar Dayal Sharma had gone missing on September 13 around 2 p.m from Dimapur, police were on the lookout and finally apprehended Shankar at Dimapur railway station on Wednesday.
The accused (Shankar) initially told police that on September 13, he was on his way to the railway station to book a train ticket for his return journey to Guwahati when six armed Naga youths came in a Gypsy and abducted him at gun point.
Shankar alleged that he was blindfolded and taken to an unknown place and kept for four days and that the armed men also seized Rs. 60,000 which he was carrying before releasing him on September 17. He also said that he could not go to Guwahati on September 17 since he had no money.
However, police got suspicious as they found Rs. 4,200 in his wallet and another Rs. 6000 in his briefcase. On further interrogation, Shankar confessed that he cooked up the abduction story as he was under pressure to repay Rs.3.30 lakhs, which he owed to his creditors.
Shankar said after he reached Dimapur from Imphal on September 13, he left for Jorhat where he stayed for two days and from there proceeded to Dibrugarh and then on September 16, he arrived in Tinsukia. From Tinsukia, he returned to Dimapur where he was arrested.
Meanwhile, Dimapur police have refuted a report that appeared in an Assamese daily ‘Purnanchal Prahari’ with regard to the “abduction” of Shankar Dayal Sharma.
Contrary to the report in the Assamese daily that Dimapur police initially refused to entertain an FIR into the case, police said the reported was a false and misleading.
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