Mumbai: Kidnapped girl reunited with family after 9 years, domestic help plays key role
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| Edited By: DNA Internet Team |Provide: DNA Internet Desk |Updated: Aug 06, 2022, 07: 35 PM IST
A minor girl, who had gone lacking from plot her college nine years ago, used to be reunited with her family in Mumbai on Friday.
The girl, now 16, used to be kidnapped in 2013 by a Mumbai-basically basically based couple. The police found the girl with the help of an alert girl domestic help, who performed a crucial role within the reunions. The particular person that had kidnapped her used to be arrested and his wife has been sent to police custody till August 10.
The girl had gone lacking on January 22, 2013, following which her family, moreover to the police, had launched a frantic see her.
Surprisingly, the 16-year-worn used to be found within the vicinity of the home of her fashioned family, a police respectable acknowledged on Saturday.
“The (kidnapping) incident had happened in 2013 when she used to be going to her civic-speed college. She used to be strolling with her elder brother, who used to be then finding out in Class 4. He used to be strolling prior to her. However after a whereas, when he became motivate, he failed to bag her,” the respectable acknowledged.
The city police had launched a see her and posters carrying her images in class uniform had been also dispensed within the condo.
Home help plays a key role
The 35-year-worn domestic help Pramila Devendra, who labored in suburban Juhu, found the girl, who had started working within the same condo love her for the reason that last few months.
“All the perfect blueprint thru their conversation, Pooja as soon as told her that she used to be being careworn by her family members, who had been not her fashioned fogeys. She told her that she had been kidnapped. Pramila then searched on the rep whether or not any information file about her lacking case had seemed wherever. All the perfect blueprint thru the quest, she found the experiences and articles about Pooja, following which she told the D N Nagar police space about her case,” the police respectable acknowledged.
Police swung into motion and made inquiries with the girl and found she used to be the same girl who had gone lacking years ago, acknowledged Milind Khurde, senior inspector of DN Nagar police space.
Thereafter, police interrogated Harry D’Souza and his wife, with whom the girl used to be staying for the last nine years.
“All the perfect blueprint thru their questioning, it came to light that D’Souza had kidnapped Pooja because the couple failed to possess a chunk of one. After kidnapping, he had sent her to Karnataka for a whereas prior to bringing her motivate to Mumbai,” he acknowledged.
DN Nagar police has registered an FIR in opposition to D’Souza and his wife Soni, both residents of Juhu Galli, below varied sections.
(With inputs from PTI)
