A teenage girl allegedly abducted by two youth was found and one of the suspected youth was also apprehended by the police. Public outrage was further inflamed when it was ascertained that the suspect youth were from a particular community. The angry villagers gheraoed the Haldwani police Kotwali demanding that the suspect youth be turned over to them.
Amidst rising tension in the area, the police managed to safely transport both the accused for medical test at the BD Pande hospital in Nainital while the girl was taken to the women hospital for medical examination.
According to sources, the 13-year old daughter of a Haldwani resident had gone out in the neighbourhood to fetch milk on Thursdaymorning. However, when the girl failed to return home more than a hour later, her family members began searching for the missing kid. In the course of their search, they came to know that the girl had not arrived at the destination to take milk.
The kinfolk and villagers then informed the police following which additional superintendent of police Yashwant Singh Chauhan and police circle officer RS Hayanki reached the site with police force. Starting the search, the police put the girl’s mobile phone under surveillance based on which the brother of the main suspect was picked up for questioning.
In the meantime, an aunt of the missing girl, also taking part in the search for the missing child by the kinfolk and public, spotted an auto rickshaw with the missing girl in it near the Motinagar locality.
She raised the alarm following which the public accosted the accused, thrashing him while rescuing the missing girl before police arrival on the scene. The angry people also smashed the auto rickshaw and pushed it down a roadside depression while the police managed to take the suspect youth away from the angry crowd into the Haldwani Kotwali but the angry locals too arrived at the place gheraoing the police.
The suspects were transported away by the police for medical examination. Meanwhile, the Nainital district senior superintendent of police Sweety Agrawal visited the hospital to check the state of the girl and talk to her. Tension was prevailing here in the evening till the time of this news report being filed.