Vijayawada: 4 women arrested for kidnapping girl

VIJAYAWADA: Vijayawada railway police on Tuesday arrested four women for the kidnap of a three-year-old girl from Vijayawada railway station on June 8. The arrested were Amaravarapu Lakshmi (45), Korukunda Vijaya Lakshmi (35), Mekala Padmaja (41) of Krishna district, and Chandana Padma (45) of Sircilla of Telangana. K Vijaya Lakshmi and Padmaja were approached by A Lakshmi, ten days ago and were offered 25,000 to kidnap a girl child from Vijayawada railway station. Later, they planned to sell the baby to Padma for 2 lakh. The girl was later safely handed over to her parents. TNN