No breakthrough in child abduction cases

Chennai

After four months, the only breakthrough police have made is finding a mobile number which is suspected to belong to one of the abductors involved in both the abductions. However, this has not helped significantly as a detailed analysis of call record data by the team has not provided any clues. Sources told DTNext that police had picked up one person, relative of one of the abducted children, and had been interrogating him. However, they could not establish his connection with the abductions. 

“We interrogated him thoroughly but nothing came out of it. So far, we have not got any concrete lead to solve these cases,” a senior police official said. Sources said the delayed response from the police had actually helped the accused to escape in the two cases. 

“The city police woke up to the seriousness of the matter only when the media started playing up the issue.  Precious time was lost in between and that could have helped the culprits to escape to safety,” a police official said. Flower Bazaar police sources said though the CCB had verified the CCTV footage at all entry and exit toll gates in the city, they could not zero in on the posh vehicles that were caught on a private CCTV at Wall Tax Road at the time of abduction. 

Visuals clearly showed a person getting out of the vehicle and taking away the child. Three posh vehicles were seen involved but the CCTV footage was too blurred to get the vehicle registration numbers. “We tried everything to get the numbers of those vehicles. But the images were too blurred. We are trying again using magnifiers to see whether we can read the vehicle numbers from the CCTV footage. We could not trace those vehicles from the checks we carried out at toll booths and we suspect that they would have avoided the booths,” the official said.

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