PNS|Hyderabad
The Chandrayangutta Police rescued a five-year-old girl who had been kidnapped and arrested five individuals involved in an organised child-trafficking racket operating across Hyderabad and with links to Mumbai.
The victim, daughter of Akram Saadi, was abducted on April 20 from near the Gandhi statue, Chandrayangutta. Following a complaint from the family, police swiftly registered a case and launched an intensive investigation.
Reviewing CCTV footage across multiple locations, the police traced the movements of the suspects and identified their residence.
A couple, Syed Javeed Pasha and his second wife Shaista Parveen, were taken into custody.
During interrogation, they confessed to abducting the child and selling her for Rs 1.3 lakh to a woman named Parveen Banu in Uppal.
Acting on this lead, police rushed to the location and successfully rescued the girl. At the time of rescue, Parveen Banu was allegedly in the process of reselling the child to two individuals – Sunitha Kumari and Rajendra Prasad – who were also arrested on the spot.
Investigations revealed that Rajendra Prasad works as an agent at Nova Fertility Centre in Banjara Hills, while Sunitha Kumari runs a first-aid clinic in Chilukanagar, Uppal. Both have a criminal history and were previously accused in a child-trafficking case under investigation by Vikroli Police, East Mumbai.
Police say the kidnapping was meticulously planned. The accused couple wore disguises – Javeed with a helmet and Shaista in a burqa – and concealed their vehicle’s number plate with a cloth to evade identification. They roamed several areas before spotting and abducting the child from the roadside.
