AGARTALA, Nov 26 (TIWN): It has been above 2 days that four Tripura's Gramin Bank employees have been kidnapped but police have failed to rescue them, generating much resentments among the bank workers. Demanding the rescue of their colleagues, the bank employees have gone in strike for an uncertain period of time. Police tried to console the bakers assuring them about successful rescue operation but the bankers clearly said that until the employees are rescued, the bank will be kept locked. Tension has gripped Teliamura subdivision and common people are also suffering due to the non-functional condition of the bank. But the mental condition of the bankers are also not good which led them to suspend the work till their colleagues are safe.

Noteworthy, Four employees of Tripura Gramin Bank were kidnapped by unknown persons from southwestern Tripura on Saturday.

The miscreants kidnapped the four Tripura Gramin Bank officials, including branch manager Tanumoy Bhattacharjee, 30, while they were returning to Agartala in a vehicle on Friday night, southern Tripura's Gomati district police chief Bijoy Debbarma said.

He said police not sure whether they were abducted by armed miscreants or any terrorist group.

Bhattacharjee was driving his car and Sujit Chandra Dey, 28 and Raktim Bhowmik, 31, were in the car. Another bank official Subrata Debbarma, 32, was driving his bike along with the vehicle. "The car and the bike were also remain untraced," the police official said.

"The exact location from where the bank officials were kidnapped is not yet known," Bijoy Debbarma said.

Meanwhile, families of the captives said an unidentified person called them up and demanded Rs 20 lakh each for release of the bank employees.

Troopers of Tripura State Rifles and other Security forces led by senior police officials launched a massive combing operations on Friday night in Khowai, Dhalai and Gomati districts to rescue the bank employees.