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Manvik: City youth facing interrogation

GUWAHATI: The policemen probing the sensation abduction of a Guwahati school boy are believed to have been interrogating a youth in this connection. Sources say in Guwahati that a team of senior CID officials have been questionings the person at an undisclosed location.Identified as Manvik Surana, the son of a top ranked city based contractor was kidnapped by the miscreants from the Kid Veda School premises in the afternoon.   

 

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