The police team of Gopeshwar police station of Chamoli district rescued a missing girl aged around 11 from Banbasa check-post and arrested the alleged abductor, a relative of the victim. The girl had been abducted in November last from Gangolgaon village. The girl was rescued and the alleged abductor was nabbed on Sunday, police said. Superintendent of police Chamoli district Tripti Bhatt announced a reward of Rs 2500 to the police team which cracked the case.
As per the information received from of police, a resident of village Gangolgaon Dinesh lal had lodged a report in Gopeshwar police station on November 29 2017, saying that his minor girl has gone missing from November 28. Acting on the report, SP had directed police to register a case of kidnapping under section 363 of Indian Penal Code. Subsequently the sub- inspector Pooja Mehra had been given the responsibility of investigating the case. Besides, two police teams had been formed at the behest of the SP which started working under the supervision of the deputy S P of Chamoli. While one of the teams had been asked to launch operation to trace the girl in Chamoli district the other had been given the task of launching operation in the rest of Uttarakhand and other states. In course of investigation, police had found that son of the maternal uncle of the missing girl Naveen Chandra, resident of village Rangtolli in Chamoli district, had abducted the girl while she was on her way to school.