Union Minister Dasari Narayana Rao’s son Harihar Prabhu was allegedly kidnapped from a hotel room in Chittor town in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday. Rao, a Rajya Sabha MP from Andhra Pradesh, is the Minister of State for Coal in the Manmohan Singh Cabinet. In a complaint filed at a police station in Chittor district, Prabhu’s wife Susheela claimed by five-to-six unidentified armed men kidnapped her husband at around 1830 hours on Tuesday.

In case of a kidnapping, there is generally a ransom note or a ransom call, but the family has not received any such ransom call or note so far. The police are still investigating the case. The police say the armed men barged into a hotel room in Seshapuram area, where Prabhu had put up, and took him away at gunpoint. Prabhu, his wife and their 10-year-old son had checked into the hotel earlier in the day.