Parents of the kid who is claimed to be missing on the Pettah police station in Thiruvananthapuram on February 19, 2024. The missing woman is the youngest of 4 youngsters of the couple hailing from Bihar.
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The Thiruvananthapuram City police have intensified an enormous manhunt for the two-year-old daughter of a nomadic couple who was allegedly kidnapped whereas sleeping in a wayside tent close to Pettah in the capital metropolis in the early hours of Monday (February 19).
The missing woman, who’s the youngest of 4 youngsters of the couple hailing from Bihar, was reported to have gone missing round 1 a.m. The household has been residing in an remoted place near a railway monitor close to All Saints’ College.
District Police Chief (Thiruvananthapuram City) C.H. Nagaraju mentioned the household, who’s believed to have migrated to Hyderabad, has been visiting Thiruvananthapuram yearly for about two months to promote honey.
Unidentified particular person in scooter
The couple additionally has three sons, one of whom has claimed to have seen an unidentified particular person abducting his sister on a yellow scooter. However, such claims are but to be ascertained by the investigation workforce.
Eight groups have been at the moment probing numerous angles. Police items hooked up to the Thiruvananthapuram Rural police have additionally fanned out to varied locations, together with transit factors. The police are learnt to have gathered a quantity of CCTV footage from the world. The household and different close by residents are being questioned.
Thiruvananthapuram MLA and former Minister Antony Raju, who took inventory of the scenario and consoled the household, mentioned the probe has been expanded so far as Kollam, whereas the Tamil Nadu police has additionally been alerted to anticipate a attainable try by the suspect gang to flee to Kanniyakumari.
Kerala General Education Minister V. Sivankutty mentioned the federal government will depart no stones unturned to hint the whereabouts of the kid.