Aunt accused of kidnap bid
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, December 23, 2011:
A minor girl, rescued by Moirang police personnel, has accused her aunt of trying to kidnap and sell her.
Narrating her ordeal to newspersons today, 10-year old Ajima Begum d/o Md Maheruddin of Minuthong Hatta said at around 9 am on December 22 she went to a local shop to purchase eatables where she met her aunt namely Thoibi from Kwakta but presently staying at Hatta Golapati.
Thoibi, wife of Maheruddin's younger brother, reportedly lured the young girl into a white colour Maruti Van with a biscuit packet and further promises that many more goods of her choice would be provided to her (Ajima).
While Thoibi stayed back, four individuals waiting inside the Van took Ajima to a market place where they were seen exchanging money, recounted the young girl who said despite threat by the four men to remain inside the vehicle she managed to slip away.
After boarding a passenger carrier (Tata Magic) without knowing where it was heading towards, only to run away from her suspected kidnappers, Ajima recounted that after getting down from the vehicle she walked for a while and came across an elderly woman working in the field.
After some hours at the woman's house where many people of the locality assembled, a police team arrived and took her away and she stayed the night at the police station, the girl maintained adding that her parents came this morning to bring her back home.
Ajima's mother Ashiya (40) said following frantic search for her young daughter information was finally received at late evening yesterday that she (Ajima) was at Moirang police station.
With Moirang police insisting the child would be handed over only after proper verification, Ashiya said she and her husband Maheruddin went back to the police station to claim her custody.
Ashiya opined that her daughter might have been kidnapped with the intention to sell her off and condemned the aunt's alleged involvement in the criminal act as outrageous and devoid of humane character.
Ajima, the youngest of five siblings, is a class IV student of Manu English School, New Checkon.