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A Mumbaibased gangster Antony is believed to be the mastermind behind the abduction of the four girls from a rehabilitation home where they were lodged after their rescue from flesh trade. Antony, who happens to be the boyfriend of one of the four girls, led the operation and took them to Mumbai by air.
A day after the daring kidnap at the rehab centre run by an NGO Ujjwala, at Ramanthapur in Cyberabad police commissionerate limits, four police teams comprising senior police officials left for Mumbai and Kolkata in search of the kidnappers. A brothel organiser Sai, whom the police took into custody in connection with the kidnap, revealed that the gangster was involved in the kidnapping. Sai, a resident of Krishnanagar in Yousufguda, had earlier been arrested by the Kukatpally police in a flesh racket case. Police had raided his house and rescued the four girls.
Uppal inspector Lakshmikanth Reddy told Express that Antony is a friend of Seema, one of the four girls.“Antony used to visit the centre to meet Seema. The rehab centre officials confirmed that they had met several times. He used to tell them that he is her brother-inlaw,’’ the inspector added.
Meanwhile, police visited airline agents’ offices in the city and spoke to passengers who flew to Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai from Hyderabad.
“On receiving information about the kidnap, we alerted our men on the Maharashtra border but did not get any lead. We suspect that the kidnappers took the girls to Mumbai by flight,’’ police said.
It is also learnt that Antony requested the rehab centre to send his girl friend away with him and said that he would submit papers and an undertaking that he would take care of her. But, the staff asked him to take court permission by submitting documents establishing his relationship with Seema. A few days ago, Seema had made calls to Antony and requested him to take her away from the rehab centre.
Of the four, Seema belongs to Hyderabad, Salima to Mumbai and Zareena and Latha to Kolkata. Interestingly, even after six months at the rehab, Seema’s family was not interested to take her back home.
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