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Police rescue abducted Nanded schoolgirl

Staff Reporter

Special teams of Detective Department nab kidnapper duo after a hot chase

STRAIGHT OUT OF BOLLYWOOD?: Sheetal Maruti with the city Commissioner of Police, V. Dinesh Reddy, after she was freed by sleuths in Hyderabad on Wednesday. Her Father, Maruti Kyamatwar, is also seen.

HYDERABAD: The city police on Wednesday rescued a schoolgirl kidnapped two days ago from Nanded in Maharashtra, with the arrest of two youngsters.

The Nanded police approached the city police last night after the kidnappers asked, Maruti Kyamatwar, the abducted class 10 student Sheetal's father, to come to Hyderabad with a ransom of Rs. 6 lakhs. They maintained regular contact with Kyamatwar, a doctor by profession, using a mobile phone and asked him to meet them at Charminar this morning.

Police spread dragnet

The police by then spread a dragnet for the abductors with seven special teams of the Hyderabad Detective Department. On reaching Charminar, the abductors asked Kyamatwar to come to Pahadisharieff Road.

When he reached there, the kidnappers -- Mohammed Shibbi and Mohammed Shareef - took the suitcase containing Rs. 4.30 lakhs and rode away on a motorcycle saying that the girl would be set free within 10 minutes.

Incidentally, the police team following Kymatwar lost sight of the kidnappers. A while later, they spotted the girl on the road a few hundred yards away. The police parties them came on to the main road and launched a hunt for them. One of the teams led by the SI, Ramana Goud, spotted the duo on a bike at Pahadisharieff. "Our team identified them after noticing the suitcase being carried by the pillion rider and chased them," the Hyderabad Police Commissioner, V. Dinesh Reddy, told reporters. Initially, the duo did not notice the stalking police vehicle, but grew suspicious when the Wagon-R came to a screeching halt as the SI applied brakes to avoid a pedestrian.

Finally, the SI caught up with the duo at Chandrayanagutta crossroads and hit their two-wheeler from behind throwing Shibbi and Shareef off it.

The abductors said that they had brought the girl to Hyderabad on the bike after abducting her while she was on her way to school in an autorickshaw on Monday morning.

Threaten to kill girl

They threatened to kill her if she raised an alarm and hid her in a single-room house in a colony at Pahadisharieff.

Kyamatwar said he was grateful to the Hyderabad police for rescuing his daughter. "It was an experience I will never forget in my life," the girl said.

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