Delhi: Woman and daughter rescued from Meerut after month's captivity

MEERUT: Over a month after they were abducted from Delhi's Kalkaji temple and allegedly sold off in UP, a 25-year-old woman and her daughter, 6, were rescued on Wednesday by a team of Delhi Police from Meerut's Mawana area.
Dharmaveer Singh, assistant sub-inspector (ASI) from Greater Kailash police station, along with the woman's parents, reached the Meerut village on Wednesday morning for the rescue.
Sources in the police department said that the man, who allegedly bought the duo, eventually ended up helping them due to a "change of heart". "The accused called up the brother of the woman and told him about the mother-daughter duo," Meerut SP (rural) Avinash Pandey said.
Narrating her ordeal, the woman, a native of West Bengal who was settled in Delhi, told local police that she and her daughter were abducted by a gang which had made them consume sedative-mixed food on June 24 at Kalkaji temple. They were then taken to Muzaffarnagar and held captive for over a month. Later, the duo was allegedly "sold off" to a resident of Meerut's Tudi Kamalpur village in Mawana area.
Sources in Meerut police said that personnel of Delhi police didn't take any action against the man who had allegedly "bought" the duo from the Muzaffarnagar gang.
"It is most likely that Delhi police will take help of the man to trace the Muzaffarnagar gang which abducted the duo from the temple," SP (rural) Pandey said.