50-year old Abhijeet Kashyap, a Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and the owner of a gas agency in Patna, on Wednesday, managed to escape from the clutches from his kidnappers who abducted him on Tuesday while on his way from Agra to Tundla in Uttar Pradesh in a tempo, the Railway police in Patna informed.
According to the police report, Kashyap somehow managed to free himself and went to the nearest police station and told them who he was. The police then informed his family members in Patna who naturally were ecstatic about the good news.
Kashyap had gone to Agra to attend a 3-day workshop organized by the Sanskar Bharti. At the conclusion of the workshop, he took a tempo and was going to Tundla where he was kidnapped by some identified criminals. He was kept hostage in Eta district from where somehow he escaped and informed the police.
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