PUNE: A 20-year-old youth escaped from the custody of Telangana police hours after he was arrested at Kharadi on the charge of abducting a minor girl.
The incident occurred outside a restaurant at Sainathnagar around 11.45am on Friday. Zubair Hafiz Shaikh from Bidar in Karnataka had allegedly abducted the girl from Telangana after they got friendly on a social media application and reached Pune.
A police team from Telangana rushed to Pune after investigations revealed that Shaikh had confined the girl at the residence of his relative in Kharadi.
Senior inspector Sunil Jadhav from Chandannagar police said on Saturday, “On completion of legal formalities, we handed over the custody of the youth and the girl to the Telangana police in the presence of their family members. A police team left for Telangana, but stopped for a break on Kharadi-Mundhwa bypass. Shaikh, while interacting with his family members, escaped on finding the police negligent.”
