Kandivli cops find missing 3-year-old within 5 hours

MUMBAI: Just five hours after a three-year-old girl went missing in Kandivli (west) on Friday, the police tracked her down and reunited her with her family. She was found a few kilometres away from the spot where she had gone missing. Medical tests were conducted and she was found unharmed.
The child lives with her parents in the Laljipada area of Kandivli. She went missing around 11 am on September 24. After hours of fruitless search, her parents and relatives approached Kandivli Police around 4 pm and lodged a case of kidnapping, suspecting that the child had been abducted.
Cops swung into action. All nine police stations under Zone 11 of Mumbai Police were alerted . Special teams from local detection staff, Nirbhaya Squad, Protection Squad and other officers were roped in. Police teams checked marketplaces, lanes, rickshaw stands and other crowded places. They eventually found CCTV footage which showed the girl wandering off on her own.
Five hours later, they found her near Mith Chowky in Malad (W). DCP Vishal Thakur (Zone 11) said, “We received the information at 4 pm and the girl was traced within 5 hours. She was unharmed and had wandered off on her own.”