CCTVs help railway police rescue minor girl kidnapped from Sec-bad railway station
Hyderabad: Surveillance cameras installed at Secunderabad railway station helped the Secunderabad Government Railway Police (GRP) to rescue a five-year-old girl from the clutches of a kidnapper at Mehdipatnam bus stand and reunited with her family.
The police swung into action after the five-year-old girl Naira Begum’s mother Gousia Begum lodged a complaint with the police. In her complaint, she said she took her two daughters to Secunderabad railway station on Tuesday to drop her at her grandmother’s home in Jangoan by travelling with a general train ticket.
When she went to bring meals to her children, Naira Begum was missing. After searching for her daughter till Wednesday afternoon, she lodged a complaint with the police, who registered a kidnap case. The investigators checked the footage of CCTVs installed in and outside Secunderabad railway station and found a person accompanying Naira Begum through the gate number one at the station.
Based on information, a police team rushed to Mehdipatnam and traced the girl after arresting the kidnapper identified as Mohammed Parvej at Mehdipatnam bus stop. The 35-year-old Parvej, who was working as a worker in a chicken shop at Manikonda, was a native of Raipur in Bihar, according to Secunderabad Railway Superintendent of Police, Chandana Deepti.
The police said Parvej confessed that he kidnapped the girl to demand money from her family. Parvej informed the police that he resorted to the crime due to financial problems. The police produced the accused railway court, which remanded him to judicial custody.