Ranipet Police Trace Missing Toddler After 34 Days in Renigunta, 5 Held
The Ranipet police rescued a one-year-old girl 34 days after she was kidnapped on October 24. Police traced the child to Renigunta in Andhra Pradesh.
Ranipet: A one-year-old girl, Maheshwari, who went missing from Ranipet in Tamil Nadu on September 24, was rescued from Renigunta in Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday, 34 days after her abduction. Police have arrested five people, including two women.
The accused were identified as Santhosh (35), Kumaran (30), Boopathy (42) and Kowsalya (35), all from Wallajah, and Malliswari from Renigunta. According to police, Malliswari, who is childless, had expressed her desire to have a child to her friend Kowsalya. Kowsalya conveyed this to her husband Boopathy and neighbour Santhosh.
Santhosh, with the help of Kumaran, allegedly abducted the child around 1 am on September 24 while she was sleeping beside her parents Sekhar and Prema, on the roadside near the SIPCOT project office.
Following a complaint, five special teams were formed under the DSP, Ranipet sub-division. Police examined over 100 CCTV clips and used technical surveillance to trace and rescue the child.
