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Kidnapped school girl rescued

Staff Reporter

CHENNAI: A seven-year-old girl who was allegedly kidnapped by an unidentified person on Wednesday evening from her school in Anna Nagar was rescued on Thursday from Red Hills area. The main accused and three of his accomplices have been arrested.

Speaking to reporters, Commissioner of Police G.Nanchil Kumaran said that the girl, Sufiya Nureen, daughter of Syed Amjad Hussain of G.K.M.Colony in Perambur, was a Class II student and had gone to school on Wednesday. Someone from her house would bring her back from the school in the evening. On Wednesday, when Wahab, a domestic help, went to the school, he could not find her. He informed the police.

After preliminary inquiries, the police formed six special teams to rescue the child. At around 7 p.m., Mr.Hussain got a telephone call demanding Rs.15 lakh ransom to release the child. On getting information about the call from the family members, police tracked the caller and found that he was moving somewhere in Red Hills area.

Searches at many places and interrogations with some persons through out the night enabled the police to zero-in on the accused. In the early morning, the teams gathered enough clues about the location of the child when the accused called again, Mr Kumaran said.

Nabbed

As the kidnapper apprehended trouble, he left the girl near a church in Kaavangarai, Red Hills and absconded. The police, however, nabbed him sometime later and the accused was identified as Prem Kartik (25) of Perambur Maduma Nagar.

The Commissioner said that during questioning it was found that the accused was a first time offender and his intention was to earn money through such illegal methods. He had obtained the telephone numbers of the girl’s father from the school’s photo identity card. It was found that three persons, identified as Ananda Kumar (28) and Naresh Kumar (25) of Paper Mills Road, and Hariharan (23) of Pattabiram, known to Prem Kartik had allegedly played a role in the kidnapping. One of them had supplied a pre-paid SIM card to Prem Kartik with which he had contacted the girl’s father. The girl was not harassed by the kidnapper, police added.

Pat for officers

Commending Additional Commissioner of Police S.R.Jangid, Joint Commissioner of Police P.Balasubramanian, Deputy Commissioner of Police Jayagowri and the team members for their swift action, Mr.Kumaran said that schools should check with parents at random whether the children picked up by their representatives had reached homes safely. In this case, the girl was taken away by the stranger who had claimed that her father had met with an accident and that he had come to take her home.

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