QUETTA: A Hindu doctor was set free by kidnappers in Quetta after payment of ransom on Sunday night.

Kidnappers released Dr Manoj Kumar in Hazar Ganji area of Quetta. Gunmen had kidnapped Dr Kumar from Quetta's Industrial Police Station area last year on Dec 2.

The kidnappers had demanded a huge amount of ransom for the release of the kidnapped doctor.

However, sources in his family said the doctor was set free after payment of 14 million rupees.

Aetezzaz Goraya, Senior Superintendent of Police Operations Quetta, told reporters that the Hindu doctor was set free after payment of ransom.

Speaking to media representatives after the release, Dr Kumar said, "I do not know where I was kept?"

He said the captors were providing only one meal to him in twenty four hours. "I was set free following payment of ransom," he added.

"I was kept in one small room and I was unaware about the outer world," Dr Kumar said.