The two accused persons arrested by the Margao police in the child abandonment case. Captured by : Santosh Mirajkar
MARGAO
As the Margao Police finally cracked the child abandonment case with the arrest of duo from Sawantwadi in Maharashtra, investigations has revealed that the minor girl and boy, who were abandoned at the Gandhi market area, became the victims of the two women married to one husband.
In another development, the woman, who has claimed to be the mother of the two abandoned children, one three year old girl and one and half year old boy, has been provided legal aid to make her presentation to see her children and seek their custody, who are presently lodged in Apna Ghar.
Margao Police station in-charge PI Tulsidas Naik informed that police has finally achieved a breakthrough in the case after the arrest of a 36-year-old woman Niki Pandey and 38-year-old Aniket Tanaji. Police said the duo are not the parents of the abandoned children.
“Our meticulous investigations, with the help of intelligence, including CCTV footage at the Gandhi market, Margao, besides the footage at the Margao and other railway stations have finally helped to nab the duo responsible behind the child abandonment case”, PI Tulsidas said.
He thanked the shopkeepers in and around the Margao Municipal market area for cooperating with the police in the investigations by providing their footage. “Our team of policemen scanned the CCTV footage in both Karnataka and in Maharashtra and made inquiries at so many places in these two places before the case was cracked”, he said.
He said preliminary investigations have revealed the women, Niki and the woman, who has claimed that the minor children belonged to her, have been at loggerheads. “Since the husband is seriously ill with liver issue, Niki and her friend Aniket decided to abandon the other woman’s children at Gandhi market to teach her a lesson”, PI Tulsidas said.
Incidentally, the two minor children of Niki, the first wife of the common husband, have also been lodged at the Apna Ghar on Saturday after the arrest of Niki and Aniket by the Margao police.
