A 38-year-old woman was arrested by the Siddapura police on the charge of kidnapping a two-year-old girl from a slum in Siddapura.
According to the police, Fatima (38), who lives in Electronic City, works in the house-keeping department of an IT company. She has two male children, but always wanted a girl.
She would often visit a relative in Arekempanahalli. On one of her visits, she spotted the two-year-old daughter of an autorickshaw driver. On April 29, the child’s father lodged a complaint with the Siddapura police saying that his daughter was missing.
The next day, the child was found near a dargah in Madivala. “A man named Imran called up the girl’s father saying that the child was with him. The father informed the police. Imran drives a van. He told police that a woman handed over the child to him at Arekempanahalli with a request to hand her over to her family. She told him that the contact number could be found on ‘missing’ posters pasted in the neighbourhood,” said a police source.
A few days later, she contacted Imran to find out if the girl had been reunited with her family. Imran passed on her phone number to the police. She was arrested on May 20.
She told the police that she had kidnapped the child on April 29 and took her home. “When she realised that the police were looking for the missing girl, she decided to return her to her family,” said an officer.
