Police rescue kidnapped eight-year-old boy in Patna

Patna, Sept 18 (ANI): Police rescued an eight-year-old boy, who had been kidnapped at gunpoint while he was traveling to his school in Patna, earlier this week.

According to police, two out of three kidnappers have been arrested and a search is on for the third.

"The boy was recovered from Chhapra's Baniyadpur police station. The three people who were involved in kidnapping of the boy; out of them two have been arrested," said Parsh Nath Rai, inspector general.

Shreyas Srivastava was kidnapped at gunpoint in the heart of Patna while he was on his way to school on Sunday.

Three armed men overtook the auto rickshaw in which he was traveling to school and forced the driver to stop. Then, the boy was abducted from there.

Shreyas is a class one student of Christ Church School.

" We want to thank media and police authorities for giving their support," said Sanjay Srivastava, Shreyas's father. (ANI)