Kidnapped and sold off at 8, 'girl' gets family back after 49 years
Hindustan Times Lucknow|December 25, 2024
Little did she know that a casual visit to a fair with her mother would prove risky to the extent that she would be kidnapped and sold off at the tender age of 8.
HT Correspondent

VARANASI:

Almost after 49 years, that little girl, who is now a 57-year-old woman living in village Raipur of Rampur district, has been reunited with her family in Azamgarh.

The woman identified as Phoola Devi alias Phoolmati, from Raunapar police station area of Azamgarh district, had gone to a fair in Moradabad in 1975 and since then she had been missing.

As per the press statement, superintendent of police, city, Azamgarh Shailendra Lal was informed by Dr Pooja Rani, a teacher at Primary School Pajawa Bilaspur, Rampur district on December 19 about a woman named Phoola Devi/Phoolmati, 57, from Azamgarh who had gone to Moradabad district in 1975 when she was 8 years old, with her mother Shyamadei.

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