Six suspected persons were detained by the police and the Ertiga car allegedly used in the abduction was also seized during the operation, police said on Thursday

A gas leak from a GAIL pipeline near Takliwadi in Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district prompted authorities to divert traffic on a 24-km stretch of the Samruddhi Expressway. GAIL officials shut valves on both sides of the affected section to reduce pipeline pressure