LAMKA, June 27: A Tata Magic bearing regd no MN O4 A 7338 and its driver MD Bahadur of Thoubal Moijing, plying from Imphal and Thoubal had been allegedly kidnap by four persons yesterday from Kaparang about 4kms from CCpur Police Station, informed a source.
It is also said that the alleged kidnappers have demanded the Tata Magic owner to deliver Rs 5 lakhs as the vehicle had met with an accident.
Three of the four alleged kidnappers including the mastermind have already been arrested from the place where they had demanded that the money to be delivered, said a reliable source.
The source has identified the mastermind as one Jamson Lungdim alias James Lhungdim son of Ngulkhohen Lungdim of Zion veng Tuibuang, CCpur, who is said to be a former UTLA member who had been reportedly expelled by the group on 10-11-2012 for his involvement in another such act.
He was apprehended by a police team led by SDPO Ccpur David from New Bazar, Lamka. The vehicle use for the act is now at the police station of CCpur, informed the source.