Police conducted raids at the official residence and ancestral house of expelled Samata MLA Sunil Pandey and detained 10 people, including Pandey’s two brothers, in connection with the kidnapping of a bank manager and a coal merchant in Bihar since last night.City Superintendent O.N. Bhaskar said police raided the residence of Pandey on Bailey Road today, suspecting that he was involved in the kidnapping of a coal merchant near New Delia area and Etmaha branch manager of Punjab National Bank R.B. Sharma on July 25. MLAs get back power PATNA: Powermen restored electricity to MLA residences on Sunday and called off their proposed move to snap supply to the state capital after an assurance from the Energy Minister that RJD MLA Suresh Passi, who allegedly beat up two powermen would be dealt with according to the law. (PTI) A raid was also conducted at Pandey’s ancestral house at Nawadih village of Rohtas district last night on suspicion that the captives were kept there. However, only Pandey’s mother was in the house.Pandey is currently lodged in Beur jail 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 was rescued from a village under Naubatpur police station of Patna district in May this year.Sharma and three bank employees were abducted from a place under Nasriganj police station on their way to the bank from Sharma’s Dehri-on-Sone residence on Friday. The three bank employees were later released at Babhni village under Nasriganj police station. The abductors took away Sharma’s car. Coal merchant Dhananjay Kumar was abducted by jeep-borne miscreants when he was on way to his coal depot.
