{"id":67905,"date":"2026-02-03T13:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T07:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/?p=67905"},"modified":"2026-02-03T13:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T07:50:07","slug":"two-members-of-a-gang-held-hostage-in-india-arrested-in-siraha-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/news\/67905","title":{"rendered":"Two members of a gang held hostage in India arrested in Siraha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p data-start=\"152\" data-end=\"420\">. Police in Siraha have arrested two members of a gang that took Nepali youths hostage on the pretext of job in Bihar, India. The arrestees have been identified as Suraj Mukhiya, 26, of Kalyanpur Municipality-7 and Prashant Chaudhary, 22, of Lahan Municipality-11. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>According to the details of the incident, the gang members lured 28-year-old Rishkesh Kumar Marik of Kalyanpur-7 online to get a good job in a construction company in Gaya, India.TAG_OPEN_p_7 On January 20, Marik was taken captive in a hostel in Bodh Gaya. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p data-start=\"669\" data-end=\"931\"> There he was snatched from his mobile phone and educational certificate, locked in a room, beaten, and mentally tortured. Threatening to kill him, he extorted Rs 2,17,200 from his family through QR code and bank account and also looted Rs 30,000 in cash from his family. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Marik had managed to escape to Nepal after he started teaching criminal activities in the name of training from the place where he was held captive.TAG_OPEN_p_5 Police had intensified search after a complaint was lodged at District Police Office, Siraha on January 29. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>According to Information Officer and Deputy Superintendent of Police Ramesh Bahadur Pal, Suraj Mukhiya was arrested from Kalyanpur on January 30 and Prashant Chaudhary from Lahan on January 30.TAG_OPEN_p_4 The court has remanded both of them in custody for further investigation. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. Police in Siraha have arrested two members of a gang that took Nepali youths hostage on the pretext of job in Bihar, India. The arrestees have been identified as Suraj Mukhiya, 26, of Kalyanpur Municipality-7 and Prashant Chaudhary, 22, of Lahan Municipality-11. According to the details of the incident, the gang members lured 28-year-old<a href=\"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/news\/67905\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Two members of a gang held hostage in India arrested in Siraha&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":67740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"acf":[],"publishedDateNp":"\u0968\u0966 \u092e\u093e\u0918 \u0968\u0966\u096e\u0968, \u092e\u0902\u0917\u0932\u0935\u093e\u0930 \u0967\u0969:\u0969\u096a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67906,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67905\/revisions\/67906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/67740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}