Hyderabad: In a swift action, the Abids police on Sunday rescued a six-year-old girl from her kidnapper within 24 hours of her abduction and arrested the accused, Mohammed Bilal of Bihar, from the Kothur police limits in Rangareddy district. The victim was shifted to a Bharosa centre for medical examination and counselling.
The police began tracking the accused after receiving a complaint, and traced him to a place near JP dargah of Vemula Narve of Kothur. Minutes after the police took him to the police station, family members of the victim roughed up Bilal.
Central zone DCP Akshansh Yadav said the police had formed six teams who tracked down and arrested Bilal who had a history of bike theft and kidnapping of a minor girl in Bihar.
"Around 5.30 pm on Sunday, we registered a kidnap case following a complaint lodged by the girl's family members. The girl, who came to her grandparents’ residence at Kattelamandi, was playing with a boy at Mutyalamma temple,” DCP Yadav said.
The boy returned home alone at around 4.30 pm. When the family members asked about girl, he informed them that a man took her away in an autorickshaw, the DCP said.
Bilal lured the girl with chocolates and told her that her father had asked him to take her home. Bilal took her to the Afzalgunj bus station from where he boarded a bus to Kothur.
"We tracked the CCTV footage and identified the accused. Teams were dispatched to Kothur where we rescued the girl and nabbed the accused,” the DCP said.
He said Bilal had come to Hyderabad from Bihar a few months after he was released from jail in connection with a Pocso case registered by the Bihar police.
Based on the medical reports, the police would alter sections against the accused. The police would hand over the girl to parents after conducting a medical examination.
The family members expressed happiness over the rescue of the girl and thanked the police for reacting quickly. The girl's mother said that she was depressed after her daughter was kidnapped and watched the CCTV footage in which she saw the accused taking away her daughter.
