The Thiruvananthapuram City police cracked the abduction case of a two-year-old daughter of a nomadic couple from near Kochuveli two weeks ago to arrest a habitual offender from Kollam on Sunday.
The accused, Hassankutty alias Kabeer, was apprehended from Chinnakkada by the special investigation team led by Deputy Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) P. Nidhinraj that has been in pursuit of the accused since February 19. The child had been found abandoned in an unused drain near the Kochuveli railway station, nearly 19 hours after she was reported to have gone missing.
District Police Chief (Thiruvananthapuram City) C.H. Nagaraju, who addressed a press conference, identified the accused as a “wanderer” with a mysterious background. While he has been recorded as a native of Edava in Ayiroor in a case file, the police have been unable to establish his link with the locality. Besides, the unlettered accused has claimed to have been adopted by a family from Gujarat in his childhood. He is known to have been doing odd jobs to earn a living.
