Anand (Guj), January 30 (PTI): A six-year-old girl was rescued from Morbi in Gujarat, nearly two months after she was kidnapped from the state's Anand district, even as the accused, a labourer from Madhya Pradesh, is on the run, police said on Saturday.
The minor, who was kidnapped on December 3 last year, was rescued on January 25 from near a factory in Morbi in Saurashtra region, nearly 240 kms from Tarapur in Anand, they said.
After rescuing the girl, the police made video calls to her parents to confirm her identity as her head had been tonsured by the accused, identified asGuddu Maliwad, a police official said.
The accused is a casual labourer from Kalyanpur in Jhabua district of Madhya Pradesh, who lived in the victim's neighbourhood in Tarapur, the official said.
"After the girl's disappearance, the victim's mother had lodged a complaint, saying that a man living in their neighbourhood kidnapped her six-year-old daughter," Anand Deputy Superintendent of Police Bharti Pandya said.
