IMPHAL, July 21 � Unidentified militants kidnapped three persons, including two children, from different parts of Manipur while a medical student who was abducted by the ultras has been rescued, police said today.
L Nganba Meitei (12) and N Kuber (10) were kidnapped when they were playing at a local playground near their houses at Chingarel in Imhal East district on Monday.
Meitei and Kuber were in VIII and VI standards, respectively, police said, adding efforts were on to trace them.
Reports said Meitei�s elder brother Poireinganba (15) was also kidnapped by militants in June 2008 and he is still missing.
In another incident, Y Manaoba, 23, was abducted from Yourbung area two days back, police said, adding the victim is son of Y Megha, secretary of Lamlai local council of CPI.
Megha said some persons claiming to be from the militant outfit Kangleipak Communist Party-Mobile Task Force (KCP-MTF), City Meitei faction, had called him up to say that his son was in their custody.
The callers told Megha that senior CPI leader and Manipur Health Minister Ph Parijat had refused to reserve ten posts for the militant outfit at the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS), which is under the State Health department.
They said that Parijat had also failed to give contract work to the outfit and asked Megha to out pressure on the Minister to agree to the militants� demand if he wanted his son back, police said.
Meanwhile, Kunal Chakravorty (38), a medical student hailing from Tripura, has been rescued from near Kangavi in Churachandpur district after he was abducted by Kuki National Organisation, Jackson faction yesterday, they said.
The militants, however, managed to escape in the nearby jungles, they said, adding the abduction could have been for ransom.
Officials said some militant outfits had kidnapped several children in 2008 to recruit them in their ranks but after widespread public protests, they began claiming that the children came to them on their own, officials said.
Several social organisations have condemned the kidnappings of children. � PTI
