An 11-year-old boy who was abducted from a village in South Dinajpur on June 11 was rescued from Murshidabad district on Monday.

Police sources said the Class V student, son of trader who hails from Berapukur village, was kidnapped by Mohammad Feroz and his wife. The couple had stayed as tenants at the boy’s house.

Jahangir Alam, the boy’s father, said Feroz and his wife, who claimed to be residents of Kaliachak in Malda district, had for the past few years stayed as tenants at his house.

“The couple used to sell garments in the rural areas in Malda and stayed at Alam’s place as tenants for five-six months in a year,” said a police officer.

Police sources said on June 11, Feroz visited Alam and took his son for a trip on the latter’s bike. As they did not return, Alam filed a police complaint the next day at Gangarampur police station. On June 13, Alam received a call and was asked to pay Rs 12 lakh ransom.

“The abductor asked Alam to visit Tulsipukur, a village in Murshidabad’s Farakka. The Gangarampur police contacted their counterparts in Murshidabad who tracked the cell phone of the abductor.

A police team reached the spot — Gholakandi, a village in Farakka close to the Jharkhand border — on Monday evening but the abductors had fled by then, leaving the boy.

On Tuesday, a sub-inspector reached Farakka from Gangarampur police station and the boy was handed over to him.

“The boy has been rescued. Our officers have started an investigation and are in search of the abductors. No one has been arrested yet,” said Y. Raghuvanshi, SP, Jangipur police district.