Social Media Trap: Man fakes identity, Kidnaps 15-year-old NEET aspirant, arrested in UP

The accused reached Kota by a hired cab earlier last week and lured the girl into leaving Kota with him. On July 11, they left for Lucknow by cab, Rathod said.

On the way, the girl got suspicious of the youth when he made her switch off her mobile and crushed her SIM card into pieces. The girl grew more suspicious when she heard him speaking to someone on call in a different dialect, the CWC chairperson said.

Stunned with revelation, the girl somehow managed to get Rajak’s phone and called her sister, who asked her to immediately reach the nearest police station, he said.

Meanwhile, in Kota the girl's hostel caretaker registered a case of kidnapping the same day the accused with the girl had left Kota, the police said.

Taking serious note of the matter, the City SP formed three teams that tracked the cab owner and its driver within hours after the report and convinced the driver to reach the nearest police station in Uttar Pradesh’s Jhansi, Kundadi Circle Inspector Arvind Bhardwaj said.

At Jhansi police station, Rajak was arrested and the minor was taken into custody and was produced before CWC on Sunday on basis of statements during counselling, he said.

The accused was produced before court on Wednesday and sent to judicial custody, he added.

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