Police rescued a two and a half years old girl who was abducted from suburban Bandra on February 9 after eight days of investigation.
After the girl, Shifa Sheikh, went missing from outside of her house in Zakeria Nagar in Bandra (East), some by-passers told her parents that they had seen her going with a middle-aged woman.
Police examined CCTV footages at railway stations in the neighbouring areas, said inspector Shankar Bhore of Nirmalnagar police station who probed the case.
The girl was spotted with a woman in the footage at Dadar station. Police tracked them upto Kings Circle railway station after which they disappeared from CCTV footages.
An informer in Kings Circle area told police about seeing a girl with matching description at a house. Police visited the house last night and found the girl with a couple.
The couple told the police that a woman who begged in the area had brought the girl to them, saying she was her grand-daughter and her father had died recently.
The couple which had no child of their own wanted to keep her. The woman demanded Rs 10,000, but the couple said they would pay more if she brought the girl's mother, they said.
The woman left the child with them and didn't turn up again, they told the police. Inspector Bhore said that police were looking for this woman.
Mumbai police's official Twitter handle noted that "Kidnapped for begging, 2.5 years old Shifa Shaikh has been reunited with her family after 8 days of rigorous search by Nirmal Nagar PStn".
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