THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The police worked day and night for two weeks to catch the criminal who abducted migrant girl from near BrahMos Aerospace Thiruvananthapuram Ltd. The accused Hansakutty (Kabir) was caught after inspecting 100 CCTV cameras and information from the jail.

The City Police Commissioner said that the investigation focused on the accused's old model mobile phone did not yield results as he rarely used it. To avoid being caught, the accused changed his appearance by shaving his head, which made it even more difficult for the cops to nab him.

On the day of the incident, the investigation focused on CCTVs in different areas of the city. The investigation progressed by focusing on the person who took a lift on a bike from the Pettah area and went near Chackai. He was again spotted taking lift on another bike from the road near the railway track where the child was found.

The accused also has a habit of walking around with a blanket over his head, which was also seen in the footage. This made the suspicion stronger. The videos of the accused were first sent to various jails. From that, it became clear that he is the accused in the case of molesting a 11-year-old girl in Ayiroor. Later, his Aadhaar was taken from the jail, but the address in Ayiroor was given in it. The cops reached there and found that he had no connection with that house. Then the investigation was focused on various districts. He was taken into custody yesterday from Kollam's Chinnakkada. The clothes were the ones seen in the CCTV footage on the day of the incident. But in the CCTV footage, the accused was seen with hair on his head, but when he was taken into custody yesterday, he was bald. The police identified him by looking at his body language, dress and gait.

Doubts and mysteries remain?

The statement given to the police was that the accused took the sleeping child around 12 midnight and covered the child's mouth. He abandoned the child thinking that she is dead due to him covering the mouth. The presence of the accused at the place at the said time corroborates this. But the police could not find the child even after searching the area for a whole day. The child was found during the inspection conducted by Mannanthala police at 7 pm. In that case the child was abandoned most of the time. It is unclear why the child could not be found around this time.