Nearly 45 days after a minor girl went missing from her village Ponnekallu in Tadikonda mandal, the police traced her and arrested a 24-year-old youngster, Muppasani Gopikrishna, who was charged with kidnapping the girl.
Superintendent of Police, Guntur Urban, Ch. Vijaya Rao presented the accused before the media and said that cases under Sections 362 IPC and Section 12 of the POCSO Act were registered against him.
The student, a first year student of engineering, was reportedly befriended by the youth on a social networking site.
The man, police alleged, knew that the girl was a minor and planned to marry her after she attained the age of 18.
He reportedly took her on his bike on August 15 and moved in parts of the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
The accused did not use any mobile phone and was in touch with his friends through calls made from public phone booths.
The police too remained clueless about the locality in which he had moved until the second week of September.
Appeal
Meanwhile, parents of the girl approached the Ministers and appealed to them to trace their daughter.
Investigations revealed his location at Sangareddy district, where he had taken a house on rent.
He began working in a local company.
Finally, the Guntur police got him by sending his scanned images to the local police in Sangareddy.
