In a deeply alarming development, Adarsh Behera, a 36-year-old Indian national from Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district, has been kidnapped by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) amid the country’s worsening civil war.

Behera, who had been working at Sukarati Plastic Factory in Al Fashir for the past three years to support his wife and two young sons, was abducted from the conflict-ridden city nearly 1,000 km from Sudan’s capital, Khartoum.

A video circulating online shows Behera seated between two RSF members, one of whom mockingly asks, “Do you know Shah Rukh Khan?” The footage has sparked widespread concern across India, prompting urgent appeals from Behera’s family to both the Odisha and central governments.

Sudan’s Ambassador to India, Mohammed Abdalla Ali Eltom, confirmed

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