Miraculous escape: 7-month-old girl found abandoned in vacant plot hours after abduction

A seven-month-old girl had a miraculous escape after three miscreants who were suspected to have abducted her from her mother’s bed at midnight abandoned her in a vacant plot on fearing being followed.

The child was rescued on Thursday morning and taken to a local private hospital for treatment.

Gurpreet Singh of New Kartar Nagar, Model Town, informed the police that some unidentified persons had allegedly attempted to abduct his seven-month-old daughter Divyanshi when she was sleeping with her mother along with two sisters.

The incident occurred after midnight on Wednesday and came to the notice of Gurpreet’s wife about 3 am when their elder daughter Pihu fell from the bed and started crying. Gurpreet had left the city in the evening on Wednesday for his business-related work and was informed by his wife Meet about the incident about 4 am on Thursday.

Though the child was later recovered from a vacant plot near the house of the victim’s family, the Model Town police, led by Bhupinder Singh, have initiated a probe into the sequence of events leading to the abduction and recovery of the child.

Circumstantial evidence suggests that the suspects, suspected to be three in number, had to abandon the child after knowing that their activities were recorded in CCTV cameras installed in the area under the Safe City Plan of the police.