A student leader owing allegiance to the Samajwadi Party here on Monday kidnapped a girl at gunpoint after assaulting her family members with the help of his armed supporters, the police said. Prasanjeet Gautam, along with his 16 armed supporters barged into the house of Surendra Sharma in Vaishali colony and abducted his
daughter, a law student. Before leaving, Gautam and his supporters also opened fire, in which the girl’s brother was injured. Locals, however, managed to catch one of Gautam’s supporters, who was later handed over to the police. “Seven teams have been constituted to trace the kidnapped girl and nab Prasanjeet Gautam and his other aides,” SP Prabal Pratap Singh told reporters in Meerut.
“Preliminary investigations indicate the incident is linked to Gautam’s love affair with the girl,” he added. —IANS