Overview
- CCTV footage circulated online showed two men on a motorcycle and a white car forcing a four‑ to four‑and‑a‑half‑year‑old girl into a vehicle outside her Kurali home while her grandparents tried to stop them.
- Police say they traced the vehicle using linked CCTV networks and recovered the child within hours of the attack on Tuesday.
- The grandparents clung to the car and were hurt in the struggle and were treated in hospital, according to the family and police reports.
- Authorities have registered an FIR and named the mother and the maternal uncle in the case while investigators continue technical probes and searches for other alleged accomplices.
- The case has sharpened local fears about child safety in residential areas and raised questions over how custody disputes can spill into criminal actions.