However, she made a few silent calls to her family using an unknown number. Hazratganj police traced the number and, after days of searching, located it in Ajmer, Rajasthan, around 700 km from Lucknow.
“Officers devised an unusual way to establish contact with her. They coordinated with Civil Hospital and arranged a video call showing her mother, Ruby, as admitted and unwell. Seeing her mother on a stretcher moved the minor, and she immediately disclosed that she was in Ajmer,” deputy commissioner of police (DCP) Central Vikrant Veer said.
The girl’s family, residents of the Janpath area, approached Hazratganj police after she went missing on August 9. Her father is a labourer. Police registered a case and launched a search.
ACP Hazratganj Rajneesh Verma told HT that the breakthrough came when investigators found that she had made a few silent calls to her family using a number borrowed from a stranger.
“She initially did not believe the police when they told her that her mother was unwell she revealed her location,” the ACP said.
A police team was then sent to Rajasthan, where they safely recovered the girl and brought her back to Lucknow before handing her over to her parents, said station house officer (SHO) Hazratganj Vikram Singh.
