The city police nabbed a domestic help who kidnapped a one-and-a-half year old girl from a businessman’s house in Arumbakkam.
Additional Commissioner of Police (North) C. Sridhar, said, “Immediately after the incident was reported, we alerted all our officers and over 10 teams to trace the woman and the child. Our teams worked efficiently and nabbed the accused within 24 hours. The child was rescued and handed over to the parents.
The search began after M. Srinivasan, a businessman and his wife Gopika, a bank employee residing on Gandhi Street, Janakiram Colony Extension, Arumbakkam, on Wednesday lodged a complaint that their daughter Hassini was kidnapped by their domestic help Buela of Otteri, on Wednesday afternoon.
She had been hired only a few hours before through a manpower agency. She took the child when the parents were away.
The police teams visited the residence of the accused, relatives’ houses and places where she had worked earlier. Tracing the signal from her mobile phone, the police figured out that she was going to her native place in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, and immediately, a team was deputed there. Police said her relatives had chided her and told her to go back with the child to the city. Unwillingly, she came to a house in K.K. Nagar, where she had worked earlier. She travelled in a bus to Kallakurichi and then returned to the city.
The police team followed her and detained her at 12.15 a.m. on Thursday at Medavakkam, Kilpauk while she was on her way to Otteri and rescued the child.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the woman kidnapped the child to bring her up. In fact, she fed the child while she was fleeing.
Mr. Sridhar advised residents to verify the antecedents of domestic helps thoroughly before employing them.
