The Guntur police have launched a hunt for a 40-year-old man who has allegedly kidnapped a 13-year-old school girl from Bhattiprolu village in Vemuru constituency.
Inspector General of Police, South Coastal Range, N. Sanjay, said that four special teams had been sent to different parts of Andhra Pradesh to trace the accused, Srirama Nageswara Rao.
A former BSF constable, Rao was driving an autorickshaw after being sacked recently.
The accused, who used to drop the girl at the school at Ilavaram, allegedly lured her. When the parents of the girl noticed something strange with her behaviour, they engaged another autorickshaw.
On April 20, the girl did not return home after attending classes. The parents smelt something fishy after they noticed that the accused too was not seen in the village.
The local police, who first registered a missing case, changed the sections, charging the accused with kidnap.
A.P. Mahila Commission chairperson Nannapaneni Rajakumari visited the village and urged the police to immediately nab the accused.
