14-year-old boy abducted in Bihar

PATNA - A 14-year-old boy was abducted at gunpoint by unidentified criminals in Bihar’s Rohtas district, police said Monday.

Pankaj Kumar, whose father Rampratap Maurya runs a private school, was abducted Sunday morning when he and his cousin were on their way to Rampur village on a tractor.

Armed criminals forcibly stopped the tractor and abducted Pankaj, police officer Jitendra Kumar Singh said.

“A case has been lodged in this connection and the police have launched an operation to find him,” he said.