The Banashankari police are now in a fix over an alleged abduction of a four-year-old girl by an employee of a furniture shop on December 28. The investigation has shown the case involved a custody battle between the girl’s parents.
The father of the girl, identified as Shafiulla, owner of a furniture shop from Kaveripura, filed a complaint that his employee, Waseem, had taken the girl on the pretext of getting her chocolate from a nearby shop and abducted her. In his complaint, Shafiulla said Waseem had quit the job and rejoined a few days ago.
Based on a complaint, the police swung into action and found the girl to be safe with her mother. Inquiries revealed that Shafiulla was separated from his wife over a domestic row and had taken the daughter along. Both the parents are fighting for the custody of the baby girl, and the mother got her back through the employee.
Even though Shafiulla was aware of this, he wanted to teach his wife a lesson and filed a complaint against Waseem, accusing him of abduction to implicate his wife in the case. Shafiulla is now demanding that the police get his daughter back. The police are now seeking help from legal experts on how to proceed on the case.
