The Government Railway Police (GRP) and the Railway Protection Force (RPF), probing the child kidnap case, suspect that an organised child trafficking gang might have abducted Shaik Hanifa (3), from the railway station here.
A contract sweeper in South Central Railway (SCR), A. Lakshmi, allegedly kidnapped Hanifa from platform number 10, while she was playing with her sister, on June 8. She allegedly handed over the girl to M. Padmaja and K. Vijayalakshmi of Gudivada on the same day.
The police, who scanned the CCTV footages in the railway station, One Town area, other junctions and main roads, identified Padmaja and Vijayalakshmi, natives of Gudivada in Krishna district, and rescued the girl on Tuesday, said Additional Director General (ADG-Railways) Kumar Viswajeet.