Minor girl kidnapped from Palghar, rescued in Mumbai
A four-year-old girl, who was allegedly kidnapped in Palghar district of Maharashtra by a woman on March 31, was rescued by the Mumbai police and reunited with her parents, a police official said. The 22-year-old woman kidnapped the girl from her school at Palghar's Virar, said Arnala Sagri police station's inspector Keshav Naik. The girl was later abandoned by the woman in Mumbai.
The abandoned child was spotted by a policeman in Mumbai
Later, a policeman in Mumbai spotted the abandoned girl child crying and wandering alone on a street in the Mahalakshmi area. The policeman took the girl to the Gaondevi police station in Mumbai where the security personnel made inquiries to search for her parents, Naik said. The police managed to reunite the child with her parents yesterday, he said.
Woman kidnapped child to take revenge from child's father
During the probe, which was later transferred to the Arnala Sagri police, it was found that the woman had kidnapped the girl child to take revenge from the child's father, with whom she was in a relationship, said police inspector Naik. The woman, a resident of Palghar's Virar, was later arrested yesterday and booked under relevant sections, he added.
Another minor girl was kidnapped from Palghar last month
In a similar incident, a five-year-old girl was kidnapped from outside her house in Nallasopara area of Palghar on March 24. The child was later found dead in the ladies' toilet of Navsari railway station in Gujarat, over 250km from Mumbai. On March 28, the police had arrested a 22-year-old woman and claimed to have solved the killing of the girl.
Woman kidnapped, killed girl to take revenge on victim's father
In the previous case, too, the accused woman, also a resident of Nallasopara, was reportedly in a relationship with the victim's father, an autorickshaw driver, and wanted to marry him. However, he was dilly-dallying on marriage and this enraged her, the police had said. To teach him a lesson, the woman had kidnapped and killed his daughter, they added.
