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Patna, Nov 4 (IANS) Four days after armed Maoists abducted 15 people, including 12 labourers, in Bihar's Jamui district, police are still in dark about their whereabouts and have failed to rescue them, officials here said Friday.
"Police have failed to recover the 15 abducted people. There is no trace of them despite intensive combing operations launched to search for them," an official of the state home department said.
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Additional Director General of Police (HQs) Ravinder Kumar said that the state police along with central paramilitary forces have been working to rescue the abducted people. "We are on the job. Search is on to trace and recover the abducted people," he said.
The incident took place early Tuesday at Balthara village in Jamui district, about 200 km from Patna, when over three dozen armed Maoists stormed the office of a private construction company engaged in bridge construction and abducted the 15 people.
Police suspect that the Maoists abducted the workers after the company refused to pay "protection money" demanded by the rebels.
Police officials in Jamui said the Maoists might have crossed to forest area of neighbouring Jharkhand along with abducted people.
Meanwhile, the banned Communist Party of India-Maoist's Jamui-Bhagalpur zone commander Chiragda denied the outfit's involvement in the abduction and alleged that local criminals were involved.
Police, however, dismissed the claim.
"It is baseless to blame local goons. It is absolutely ridiculous. We have evidence to prove that it was the rebels' handiwork," said Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) A.K. Yadav of Munger range.
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