Hyderabad: Four young men, in a silver Indica cab, had tried to pull a 20-year-old mentally unstable girl into the car at about 3 am in an upmarket Padmaraonagar residential colony, a week ago. Thankfully, on hearing the girl’s screams, a local resident saved her.
However, the miscreants were not deterred. They returned to the spot to try and abduct the girl again, but this time they found a group of residents there. The residents also clicked a picture of the car and informed Chilkalguda cops, who later shifted the girl to Gandhi Hospital Women’s outpost shelter. Following lack of a formal police complaint, the girl was shifted to a home. But the 20-year-old later fled, the police said.
P. Anuradha Reddy, the eyewitness who saved her, said, “At around 3 am, I woke up to a sound of brakes screeching. I heard a woman screaming: ‘Mummy Mummy’. I quickly grabbed my torch and rushed out.
I saw the girl running from the colony park towards my house and the car following her. From the back seat, one man got out, and started dragging her into the car. She freed herself and ran towards an under-construction building. The youth got into the car and they zoomed past us. The girl was shivering and was shabbily dressed. I spotted a watchman watching everything. He said: ‘Amma they were four and I am alone, I could do nothing’.”
Ms Reddy then stopped two young men returning from a wedding and told them everything. Meanwhile, the Indica returned. The youths took its picture as it drove off. The girl, speaking in Telugu and English said, “I came from Dilsukhnagar and I have no money.” Soon two police constables reached the spot and took her to the shelter.
