AGARTALA, Oct 18 (TIWN): Jiban Debnath who has been missing since the day of Santanu's murder on Sep-20, till day state's police couldn't find him out. Even though an FIR was lodged but no clue about Jiban Debnath has been recovered by Tripura police. Police sources said Jiban Debnath, who had taken a Delhi-based journalist and psephologist Sajjan Kumar and his guide Biswajit Debbarma to Jampui Jala, was allegedly kidnapped by by miscreants at Khumlwng on their way back to Agartala on Sep-20. While Sajjan Kumar and his guide Biswajit Debbarma were left, Jiban Debnath was kidnapped but has remained untraced till day.Jiban's wife had filed a complaint with the East Agartala police station on Thursday but police have not been able to trace any clue so far. Coming close on the heels of the murder of the journalist, the abduction of Debnath has strained the prevailing ethnic tension in Tripura.

"We have searched the area in collaboration with our colleagues from Khumlwng and Jampui Jala police stations but he is as yet untraced, though we are now quizzing Sajjan Kumar and Biswajit Debbarma," officer-in-charge of East Agartala police station, Milan Dutta, said.