Durgapur, 29 Feb: A luxury car owned by businessman Mr Sanjit Gupta of Ballygunj place, Kolkata was hijacked on last Thursday when it was being taken to a service station, was recovered from Durgapur last evening. It was found abandoned beside a bush in Gandhi more crossing.

Mr Shyamal Chatterjee, a police officer dealing with the subject said, ‘we came to know that three persons were found roaming in the area riding on the car. They were seen waiting outside a local ICICI bank counter in Bhiringhee area.’ The car was locked and its fuel was finished. The hijackers had fled the area when the fuel was finished because the process of refueling was quite a different from the normal cars.