No ransom demand for release of kidnapped engineer

The employer of an engineer,who was kidnapped by suspected NDFB militants in Assam,said they had not received any ransom demand.

The employer of an engineer,who was kidnapped by suspected NDFB militants in Assam,today said they had not received any ransom demand even as Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah asked his Assamese counterpart Tarun Gogoi to set up a special team to trace him.

The city-based Gyatri PCI (JB) company said it had not received any ransom demand from the captors for the release of P Krishna Rao who was abducted on October 16 in Kokrajhar district.

Rao,the companys project manager,was engaged in work when five youths,riding motorcycles and brandishing firearms,kidnapped him from the construction site on the National Highway at Joypur.

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The wife of the engineer said her husbands employer had informed her that no demand for ransom had been made so far as Krishnas son and daughter appealed to the abductors to set free their father unharmed.

Prasana Rao,the son,urged concerned authorities to keep the safety of his father uppermost in their minds while taking any action.

Assuring the worried family that all-out efforts would be made to trace the engineer,Rosaiah said he had spoken to Gogoi to set up a special team to trace Rao.

I think they are doing this. he said.

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