Gunjan Sharma kidnapper Biman Bora shot at by police in Chabua

DIBRUGARH: 

Dibrugarh: Biman Bora, the accused in the sensational 2013 Gunjan Sharma kidnapping case, was injured in police firing in Kanjikhowa, Chabua in the early hours on Wednesday.

According to police, Bora is accused of several robbery, kidnapping, car lifting cases across upper Assam.

"After getting information that Biman Bora is in Kanjikhowa, we send a team to nab the accused. When our tracked him and tried to arrest Bora, he fired at the policemen. In retaliatory action, the police first at his leg. Later, he was admitted at Assam Medical College and Hospital for treatment,” said Dibrugarh SP Shwetank Mishra.

"We have recovered a pistol and live ammunition from his possession," Mishra added.

On December 4, 2013, 14-year-old Gunjan Sharma, a daughter of a businessman and a student of Class 8 at the Kendriya Vidyalaya, Nazira in Sivasagar district, was abducted by Bora along with 19 other school children in a school van from Sivasagar's Simaluguri town.

According to reports, Gunjan had pleaded with the gunman to take her hostage and let the other children go even as he fired three rounds to keep off the people chasing him and forced the driver at gunpoint to turn the van towards Nagaland. The criminal had kidnapped the children to facilitate his escape to Nagaland, later allowed the others to leave and took Gunjan hostage.

The next morning Gunjan was found at Bihubhor, near the Assam-Nagaland border, where the gunman had freed her. In recognition of her bravery, Gunjan was conferred the first state bravery award by the then Tarun Gogoi government in 2014. In 2015 she was conferred the Geeta Chopra award by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on January 24.

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