Meerut Police arrest madrasa member after SOS call from second 'captive' girl



It was a distress call that sent the Meerut police into a tizzy.



Aisha, a girl from Meerut's Kharkhauda, called the police on Wednesday evening and claimed that she was being kept in confinement at a madrasa in Phulat, Muzaffarnagar district.



It's the same place where a 20-year-old was allegedly kept in captivity recently after she was gang-raped and subjected to proselytisation.

And that reference was enough for the police to act with speed in Aisha's case.



The madrasa where the girl was allegedly kept in captivity

The police have taken Hafiz Abdullah, a member of the madrasa, into custody because he had sent many text messages to the same mobile number from which Aisha had called the police.

A team of Muzaffarnagar's Ratanpuri police, led by Devendra Kumar, conducted a raid on the madrasa. But nothing incriminating was found there.



However, while checking the call and SMS details of Hafiz, the police found that he had sent over 100 text messages to the phone used by Aisha.



Hafiz reportedly told the police that he and Aisha got in touch when he responded to a missed call from her number.



"We came to know each other when I responded to her missed call a few months ago. Since then, we talk on mobile phone frequently and also exchange SMS," Hafiz was quoted as saying by the police.

Budhana (Muzaffarnagar) circle officer S.P. Sharma, who is interrogating Hafiz, told newspersons that the girl said she was calling from Phulat's madrasa.



"She said she had been confined there and sought help. Then the call was abruptly disconnected. Since then, her mobile has been switched off. But according to the surveillance report, she was in Phulat when she called the police," Sharma said.

