This is an archived blog post from The Acorn.
When armed men took away Mayar Noori, the administrator of Pasni in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, both he and his uncle, a provincial minister, thought that he had been kidnapped by rivals. But the alarm proved to be unfounded after it appeared that the abductors were, well, members of Pakistan’s anti-narcotics force who had taken him into custody.
But despite a court petition by a self-proclaimed well-wisher, Subrata Roy Sahara, chairman and the idiosyncratically titled ‘managing worker’ of the $11 billion Sahara conglomerate, was not even kidnapped. From his hiding place, the managing worker wrote a letter to his lawyer that was produced in court:
The allegations that I have been detained illegally against my wishes and desires by my wife Smt Swapna Roy, my colleague, deputy managing worker .P. Srivastava and deputy managing worker J.B. Roy, who is also my brother, are extremely painful, false and highly defamatory. [The Calcutta Telegraph]
At this rate, Bollywood’s penultimate kidnapping ‘twists’ (tumhari maa hamare kabze mein hai) will become even less believable.
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