Kollam: The police team from Kollam has brought the abducted Rajastani girl back to Oachira on Thursday afternoon. The team had found her along with the prime accused Muhammad Roshan at Panvel in Mumbai on Tuesday.
They were produced before a court in Panvel and were brought to Kollam by road under transit warrant. The girl was allegedly abducted by a four-member gang led by Muhammad Roshan from her rented house in Oachira on March 18. She told the police team that she was in love with the prime accused for the last two years and expressed her interest to live with him.
While the police maintains that the girl is a minor, the relatives of Muhammad Roshan have raised allegations that the girl's family had misguided the police on her age and that she was not a minor.
The police received a copy of the girl's school transfer certificate that recorded her birthdate to be in September 2001, proving that she is minor. The police will further visit her school at Rampura in Rajasthan where she had studied, collecting more details on her age.
As her age has now been inferred to be under 18, the police will proceed with sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (PoCSO) Act, 2012 slapped on all the four accused.
Muhammad Roshan, 21, of Kannitta, Memana South, in Oachira, Ananthu, 20, of Payikkuzhi, Bipin, 20, of Changankulangara, and Pyari, 19, of Payikkuzhi are the accused in the case.
According to the police, Muhammad Roshan had taken the girl to Bengaluru in a train from Kochi and then to Mumbai. The police team had tracked a phone call made by a relative of the accused to trace them in Mumbai. The police team had conducted search operations in Rajasthan and Bengaluru before zeroing in on them in Mumbai.
The girl, daughter of a Rajastani couple, was allegedly abducted by the gang led by Muhammad Roshan, beating up her parents before she was dragged into a rented car and kidnapped by around 10 pm on March 18.
The family from Rajasthan has been living in Oachira for the past two years, selling clay sculptures on the wayside. Recently, there were selling their sculptures along the Oachira - Valiyakulangara area.
- While the police maintains that the girl is a minor, the relatives of Muhammad Roshan have raised allegations that the girl's family had misguided the police on her age and that she was not a minor
- As her age has now been inferred to be under 18, the police will proceed with PoCSO sections
