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Mystery woman leaves policemen puzzled

Marri Ramu

No end in sight to agony of abducted Yesu Babu's mother

ANXIOUS WAIT: Mary, mother of Yesu Babu, who was kidnapped from Madhapur. — Photo: G. Krishnaswamy

HYDERABAD: Mary is agony personified. With a silent prayer on her lips, she sits at the threshold of her one-room tenement waiting for some news about her infant son abducted twelve days ago. There is none to comfort her.

Her husband, a mason by profession, is out searching for the son. Their relatives mount a futile search for the boy Yesu Babu. Police say they are doing their best, but good tidings continue to evade the couple, accentuating the agony manifold, as time ticks by.

It was on February 18 that a mysterious woman befriended Mary in a local church in Sainagar, barely a kilometre away from Madhapur. The woman sat behind her in the prayer hall and played with the boy and then disappeared all of a sudden. There is no news of the boy since.

Clueless

Personnel of this ISO-certified Madhapur police station are equally clueless. With the kidnap for ransom angle being ruled out as Mary and Prakash eke out a living on daily wages, they too are puzzled.

Police say they took up a massive campaign to enlist public cooperation. A portrait of the woman suspect was drawn, but not many in the locality are aware of it. Neither do they know whom to call, if they happened to sight the mysterious woman.

Joseph lives next door. But he does not have the faintest idea about the descriptive particulars of the suspect. "Policemen are coming and going. Neither did they show us the suspect's portrait nor tell us how we could help them," Satyanarayana, another local concurs.

What worries police is that the same woman is suspected to be involved in two other abductions of children in Jubilee Hills and Banjara Hills. Police are now concentrating on contacting the auto- drivers as the woman used autos for a getaway. But for some auto-drivers reporting suspicious movement of strangers, inquiries drew a blank.

The suspect

The woman in question is dark, lean, of average height and mostly wears Punjabi dresses. She has a burnt scar around the neck and tries to cover it up with `chunni'. She applies `sindhur' on her temple with a `chamki' in the centre. The woman in her mid-20s speaks Telugu and Hindi but is not fluent in the languages.

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