The district police nabbed two miscreants involved in human trafficking and rescued a four-year old girl kidnapped from Kota, Rajasthan, on May 6, said Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Shreenivas Varma while speaking with the media persons on Sunday in the State capital.
DIG Varma said that Bhopal police received information regarding kidnap of the four-year old girl and also about Ashok Vishwakarma of Rajgarh district who kidnapped the girl. A search operation by the crime branch and the district police, joined by Rajasthan police officials who reached Bhopal, was conducted to nab the miscreant.
Finally the investigation yielded results and Ashok Vishwakarma was caught from Bhopal railway station. When the miscreant was questioned he confessed to the crime and disclosed that he kidnapped the victim on May 6 and sold her to Rakesh Jhajoria and Mahesh Bedia on May 7 for Rs 1 lakh.
He was paid Rs 17,000 and was assured that the rest of the amount would be paid later. Police teams were dispatched to Rajgarh where the victim was held captive and rescued her but the accused Rakesh managed to escape and is still at large. Mahesh was nabbed from Berasia.
Ashok said that the kidnap was executed with the help of his niece who is victim’s neighbour and has been named in the FIR. He also confessed that the kidnap was done for human trafficking. Investigations are on and it is possible that the nexus working behind the human trafficking would be unearthed, said senior police officers.