BHAGALPUR: Nine people were kidnapped during the past 48 hours, in riot-ravaged area of Nathnagar in Bhagalpur district Bikar police said here Tuesday.
Altogether nine persons, including six of a family at village Bhimkitta, were missing since Sunday. The rest were missing from Bhatoria village, the sources said.
They added that efforts were on to locate them. Steps had been taken to maintain normalcy in the area which saw the worst violence when the precisionists of a particular community carrying “shilanyas” or consecrated bricks through the district mouthed provocative slogans leading to the worst communal riots during first week of November.
Article extracted from this publication >> February 16, 1990
