 "Kidnappers fed me, dropped at railway station: Snapdeal employee Dipti Sarna")
A 24-year-old Snapdeal employee, who was missing since Wednesday evening, returned home today soon after she had called up her family to tell them that she was on a train from Panipat in Haryana.
Deepti's father said today that she called him up in the morning and told him that she was in train in Panipat and coming to Vaishali.
"She told me that she will come to Vaishali, but I asked her not to come to Vaishali and said I will come to New Delhi Railway Station to pick her."
"I don't know how she came (managed to escape). She was calling me up from the phone of her co-passenger in the train. She was found sitting in the train. I don't know whether she was in trauma," he said.
Deepti's mother said that her father picked her up at New Delhi Railway Station.
Ghaziabad Senior Superintendent of Police, Dharmendra Singh said that Sarna took a shared auto and after it broke down, she moved to another shared auto where there were two men and a woman in the vehicle.
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After a while, the auto took an unusual turn, which is when Sarna started to raise her voice. The men in the auto allegedly threatened the other female passenger at knifepoint to leave the auto.
Sarna was then blindfolded and taken to the Rajnagar Extension area and from there she was taken to an undisclosed location in a drive that lasted almost three hours, they said.
Sarna told the police that she was not harmed in anyway by her alleged abductors throughout the night and that she was also fed by them. She added that they left her blindfolded at a railway station the next morning, where she managed to board a train.
Sarna added that her captors did not speak to her and she could not make out their profiles as she was blindfolded
Superintendent of Police (city) Salman Taj Patil had earlier said that they are investigating the case and would quiz Sarna later in the day as she needed rest. He added that Deepti Sarna had not been "physically harmed".
"We will probe as to how she had gone to Panipat. We are very sure that she has not been physically harmed and she is fine," he said.
On Wednesday around 8.30 p.m, Deepti went missing after she was travelling in an auto she had hired from outside Vaishali Metro Station. According to police, Deepti was on her way from Vaishali metro station to the old bus stand of Ghaziabad where her father Narendra Sarna, a resident of Kavi Nagar, was waiting to pick her up.
After she went missing, her father had told the police that when the auto crossed the Hindon river bridge on Wednesday's evening, Deepti called him and gave him the location.
She was also heard shouting at the auto driver for taking a wrong route, he had said, adding thereafter her phone was switched off.
Police had soon swung into action and launched a manhunt to search the girl.
Police had yesterday started combing operation in the jungles of Morti near Raj Nagar extension under jurisdiction of Sihani gate police station. As per call details of Deepti's phone, that was her last location.
Police was trying to trace Deepti by electronic surveillance and monitoring some other mobile numbers. Some auto drivers were also summoned for questioning.