TWO siblings, who went missing from Ranchi’s Dhurwa area 12 days ago, were freed from kidnappers in Jharkhand’s Ramgarh district on Wednesday, police said. The Ranchi Police have also arrested two persons, suspected to be members of an interstate gang involved in the case, they said. A police team brought the children, aged 4 and 5, back to Ranchi from Ramgarh. The siblings had gone missing after visiting a grocery store near their house on January 2. “We have safely recovered both Ansh Kumar and Anshika Kumari.

 

The parents of the children are also with us. Under the leadership of Zonal IG Manoj Kaushik, Ranchi Police has achieved a major success,” DGP Tadasha Mishra said. “Preliminary interrogation revealed that the accused had taken the children to Chitarpur in Ramgarh,” he told a press conference here. Chief Minister Hemant Soren congratulated the police for the successful recovery of the children. “Only a mother and family can feel the boundless joy of this moment. Heartfelt congratulations again to the Jharkhand Police team for this splendid success. DC Ranchi, please also inform and connect Ansh and Anshika’s family to all necessary Government schemes,” he said in a post on X. In an earlier post, the CM had said the two siblings were freed from the “clutches of kidnappers today”.

 

“How can someone stoop so low? Personally, the last few days have been quite distressing for me. Initially, there was no success, but the way the Ranchi Police connected the threads of a similar incident in another State and reached the criminals to secure the children’s release is commendable,” he said. Soren said the investigation will not end with the rescue of the two children. “We will make efforts to break the backs of criminal gangs after conducting a thorough investigation into such crimes in the State, and outside the State,” he added.