One Antony, who is leading a gang in Mumbai, is believed to be the mastermind behind the abduction of the four girls from a rehabilitation home here where they were lodged after their rescue from flesh trade. Antony, who happens to be the boyfriend of one of the four girls, led the operation and took them to Mumbai by air. A day after the daring kidnap at the rehab centre, being run by Ujjwala, an NGO, at Ramanthapur in Cyberabad police commissionerate limits, four police teams comprising senior police officials left for Mumbai and Kolkata in search of the kidnappers. A brothel organiser Sai, whom the police took into custody in connection with the kidnap, revealed that the Mumbai gangster was involved in the kidnapping. Sai, a resident of Krishnanagar in Yousufguda, had earlier been arrested by the Kukatpally police in a flesh racket case. Police raided his house and rescued the four girls who were kidnapped on Saturday. Uppal inspector Lakshmikanth Reddy told Express that Antony is a friend of Seema, one of the four girls. ``Antony used to visit the centre to meet Seema. The rehab centre officials confirmed that Antony had met Seema several times. He used to tell them that he is her brother-in-law,'' the inspector added. Meanwhile, police visited airline agents' offices in the city and spoke to passengers who flew to Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai friom Hyderabad. ``Soon on receiving information about the kidnap, we alerted our men on the Maharashtra border but did not get any lead. We suspect that the kidnappers took the girls to Mumbai by flight,'' police said. It is also learnt that Antony requested the rehab centre to send his girl friend away with him and that he would submit papers and undertaking that he would take care of her. But, the staff asked him to take court permission by submitting documents establishing his relationship with Seema. A few days ago, Seema had made calls to Antony and requested him to take her away from the rehab centre. ``We have collected call data of Seema's mobile. We are sure of arresting the guilty," Lakshmikanth Reddy said. Of the four, Seema belongs to Hyderabad, Salima to Mumbai and Zareena and Latha to Kolkata. Interestingly, the family of Seema was not interested to take her back home from the centre. With the girls having stayed at the centre for six months, police approached Seema's family members and requested them to take her back into their fold but the family turned down the request of the police. The girls, who are aged between 16 and 20, had been rescued from flesh trade by the Kukatpally and Miyapur police and were accommodated at the rehabilitation centre at Ramanthapur after producing them in a court six months ago.
By Mouli Mareedu
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