Local entrepreneurs of Birgunj on Saturday submitted a memorandum to the Chief District Officer in Parsa demanding their security. 

Their move follows the abduction of Suresh Kedia, a member of the Kedia Organisation. An armed gang of six-seven men, who came on a white vehicle with an Indian registration number, abducted the 56-year-old businessman from Baghaban along the Kalaiya-Mahagadhi road in Bara on Thursday evening. Kedia was going to Birgunj from Kalaiya in his car at the time. 

Bara Chief District Officer Krishna Prasad Dhungana said they have intensified search for Kedia. Nepali authorities have also asked the Consulate General Office of India in Birgunj for help in the search effort.