Click to play videoNew Delhi: The police have found the body of an six-year-old boy, Ankit, in Chhapra, Bihar, who was kidnapped a month ago.
The kindergarten student was abducted on April 12 from outside St Paul's School in Patna. The Patna Police had arrested a few people in connection with the kidnapping, but could not save the child.
Ankit's father is a small-time businessman from Patna.
Statistics show that more than 900 people have been abducted across the state in the first three months of 2007.
Newspapers have reported a steady increase in cases of murders, loot, extortion and banditry, indicating little has changed since a new government came to power in the state in 2005.
And in the wake of a series of abductions of school students in the state, more and more people are questioning Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's claims of providing better governance.
A court report said that 903 cases of kidnappings took place in Bihar from Jan 1 to March 31. January accounted for 333 abductions, February for 361 and 209 kidnappings took place in March.
According to officials, over 2,000 people were kidnapped in 2006 alone.
Bihar's kidnapping industry is clearly thriving. Lawyers, doctors, contractors and businessmen and school students have been the prime targets of abductors for ransom.
Hundreds of well-to-do professionals have migrated to bigger cities or sent their children to boarding schools outside the state.
Gupta is also general secretary of the Council for Protection of Public Rights and Welfare, which files public interest litigations related to crimes.
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