An eight-month-old baby girl, Rajeshwari, who was kidnapped from Besant Nagar on Thursday night, was rescued by police in K. K. Nagar on Saturday afternoon.
“We viewed CCTV footage from the area and we found that three women and a man took the child and walked for some distance after the abduction, and then took an autorickshaw. After travelling for some distance, they got down and took another autorickshaw. We tracked down the vehicle,” a police officer said.
The police team finally found that the gang had given the child to a woman in K.K. Nagar. “We have rescued the child and have sent her to the hospital for a check-up. We will nab the gang soon,” said P Pagalavan, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Adyar
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On Friday, Shastri Nagar police had started a search for the kidnappers and the baby, following a complaint from the baby’s mother.
Police said Rajeshwari was the daughter Basha (25) and Sneha (22), a couple residing in Swamimalai, Kumbakonam, and belonging to the gypsy community. Recently the couple had quarrelled and in a fit of anger, Sneha had walked out of the house and had come to Chennai.
On Thursday night Sneha came to the Velankanni church in Besant Nagar, and in the night she and her daughter slept near the on the pavement on the Besant Nagar promenade. When she woke up on Friday morning, the child was missing. After searching everywhere, she had lodged a complaint with the Shastri Nagar police station.
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The police had checked CCTV footage and formed a team to find the baby and nab the kidnappers.
Recently, the Flower Bazaar police rescued a seven-month baby boy of balloon sellers Johne Bhosle and Randesha Bhosle, who had been kidnapped on Marina Beach.