GHAZIABAD: The police on Thursday morning found the 13-year-old girl who was allegedly kidnapped from Mahindra Enclave area in Kavi Nagar while on the way to school on Wednesday.The girl was found by the cops near Columbia Asia Hospital along NH-24 with her alleged kidnapper. Police sources told TOI that given the circumstances, it seems the girl might have gone on her own with the accused who happens to be her neighbour.The girl's father too failed to come up with a convincing reply when asked about the episode, though he maintained that his daughter was kidnapped. "After she was handed over to us by the police we tried talking to her but she is too traumatised to speak and the only thing she is repeating is that she was taken from one location to the other in the car and at night she was taken to somewhere in Loni," the girl's father said. The SHO of the Kavi Nagar police station is still treating the case as one of kidnapping even though sources in the police department said that the girl had most probably gone with the youth of her own volition."We had launched a manhunt on Wednesday and tracked the phone numbers of possible suspects which we had zeroed in on after talking to the girl's family members," said Hemant Rai, SHO Kavi Nagar police station."A youth who lives in the same area emerged as the most probable suspect and we started tracking his mobile number and based on his call detail record his location was found to be in Chirauli, Ratauli and Greater Noida and when we reached there the youth changed his location," Rai said."Finally, on Thursday morning we got his fresh location near Columbia Asia Hospital on NH-24 and finally he was arrested and the girl rescued," Rai said, adding that there could be more people involved in this and the accused was being questioned.The girl, meanwhile, will be sent for medical examination after which her statement will be recorded under Section 164 of the CrPC. When asked if the girl was sexually assaulted, Rai said that would be ascertained after her medical examination.But the circumstances under which the girl disappeared raises questions on the kidnapping theory. "The girl left early for school on Wednesday and instead of taking the usual route she took a different route which threw doubt on the abduction theory," a source said.

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