HYDERABAD: All the four boys kidnapped by a woman, who was picked up by the city police on Saturday, were sold to a gang outside the State, it is learnt.

Though police believe that the boys are safe, they said it would require at least another day to trace them as the woman was giving contradictory details about the gang.

She was rounded up by locals at Saibaba Nagar of Borabanda when they spotted her enquiring a housewife about some address.

On being handed over to the police, the woman initially brushed aside allegations of her possible involvement in the abductions. "She was undeterred, confident and in fact asked a Sub-Inspector not to make allegations without proof," a police officer associated with the investigation said.

Six-month-old son

Only when a housewife Padma, whose six-month-old son was kidnapped from Sanathnagar three days ago, recognised her as the kidnapper did she spill the beans. Police are grilling her to identify her associate, who drives a three-wheeler and had aided her in the abductions.

The woman, however, said she was not aware where the boys were kept. Nor could she give details of the gang to which she sold the boys. All that she could say was that a mediator used to meet her and she handed over the boys to him soon after abducting them.

Meanwhile, Padma is still worried about the fate of her son. "Policemen called me to identify if she was the woman. I recognised her. But none is ready to answer my question about my son's safety," she cried.

Anxious wait

Residents of the street are thronging her rented house in Vadderabasti as television channels aired reports about the kidnapper being taken into custody.

Despite all of them consoling her with assurance of tracing the boy, the dejected woman is sitting in front of the house waiting for the return of her tiny tot.

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