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Monday, May 16, 2005

CENTRAL HINDI INSTITUTE PUBLICATION MANAGER LIBERATED

Agra: AFTER a three-day traumatic confinement by the notorious Bhura Yadav gang, Devendra Sharma, the publication manager of the Kerndriya Hindi Sansthan, a wing of the central Human Resources Ministry, was released on Thursday from the ravines in Morena district. He was brought to Agra the same evening in a highly disturbed state. SSP Rajiv Krishna told media persons today that two persons including Bhura himself were in police custody.
Devendra Sharma said he was confined in Bamrauli, 35 kms from Gwalior, after he was picked up on March 6 from Dayalbagh area where he had gone for a morning walk. Calling from five different places, Bhura Yadav demanded a ransom of Rs 2 crore.
Bhura from Mathura district escaped from police custody on way to the district jail in Agra on February 14. The cops who were escorting him from Mathura had been fed Halwa which contained some highly intoxicating drug, by his henchmen.
Senior officials told www.mediabharti.com in Agra that four police parties had been following the gang from different locations, before Morena police exchanged fire with the gang members who fled leaving Devendra Sharma free.

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