Delhi Police is now trying to procure advanced satellite imagery of the area around India Gate to identify the abductors of Jahnvi, the three-year-old who had gone missing from the high-security zone on September 28 and was found in West Delhi on Sunday. The CCTV footage of the area has so far not been of much use for the police as far as identifying the abductors are concerned. The last visual is off around 9.21 pm where the girl is seen playing alone in the India Gate lawns. However, who took her from there in a car was not captured in any of the CCTV.
“We have written to an international company, which provides images captured by satellites. We have asked them whether they can provide us images captured by any satellite, which might have passed over India Gate at that time of last Sunday evening when the girl was abducted,” said Additional Commissioner of Police (New Delhi) SBS Tyagi. He also said that they will also contact Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the India Meteorological Department (IMD) for satellite images in this regard.
Police investigation has hit a roadblock after it came to fore that the girl cannot reveal much about their abductors. “The only thing she says is that I had gone with ‘mummy’,” said Tyagi. Further persuasion by her parents has revealed that she was taken away from India Gate by a couple in a car.
“She did not speak much, we could only understand that there was a couple who spoke to her, identified themselves as her parents and took her in a car,” said Sheetal Ahuja, Jahnvi’s mother.
All these things and the fact that her abductors took good care of her, fed her well and tonsured her head to hide her identity indicates toward the possibility that those who kidnapped her were probably a childless couple who wanted to raise her as their child.
Investigation has also indicated that those who had kept her captive for the past one week decided to release her under relentless pressure from police and media. There is no external injury mark on the girl’s body, which suggests the captors tended to her, police said. She was found alone in lajwanti Garden sabzi mandi area in West Delhi’s Janakpuri area by locals at around 8 pm on Sunday a week after she had gone missing.
There was a placard found hanging from her neck which said,” My name is Jahnvi, I had gone missing from India Gate.” The placard also had her father’s name and phone number. The girl was found by locals who then called her father and also made a PCR call following which a police team rushed to the spot and brought her to Mayapuri police station.