Cops trace runaway girl in five hours

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, NOV. 17. A dejected teenager, who ran away from home searching for her boy friend, had the police and the family members on tenterhooks for well over five hours last night. The girl, who was initially believed to have been kidnapped, was located around midnight thanks to some fast action by the Sanjivareddynagar police and restored to her parents.

The 13-year-old packed her belongings and left the house in the evening in an autorickshaw and her working parents were aghast when they were informed of this by the watchman of the apartment complex in the Kalyannagar locality. The worried parents immediately lodged a police complaint suspecting that the girl could have been kidnapped around 5.30 p.m.

The parents suspected that a youngster identified as Chaudary could be responsible for the `kidnap'. When police teams swung into action and located Chaudary, the girl was not with him and the youngster claimed the girl did not at all meet him on Friday. Meanwhile a general alert was sounded over the West Zone wireless grid asking police patrol teams to look out for the girl.

Meanwhile a police team managed to gather the telephone numbers from which the girl used to receive phone calls from the caller ID equipment at her house and managed to zero in on a chicken shop where Chaudary used to hang around. The shop owners told police that a girl had indeed made calls enquiring about Chaudary. By this police concluded that the girl was trying to contact him and anticipated that she would try to call up Chaudary on his mobile phone.

However, Chaudary told the police that he was not using his mobile as he did not renew the subscription of the pre-paid card. The police immediately paid some money and got the card recharged and as expected the girl called up within half an hour. The police made Chaudary talk to the girl and immediately found out that she was near a hotel in Begumpet. Police rushed there and took the girl into custody.

The police learnt later that after hiring the auto rickshaw, the girl went to different places searching for Chaudary and had even attempted to rent a room in a couple of lodges, but the managers turned the girl away. She got off the auto near her house again and pleaded with the auto driver that she did not have any money. The auto driver later contacted a rakshak patrol vehicle and narrated the incident.

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