Ludhiana, June 21 -- Police have booked a woman on charges of abducting her six-year-old daughter from her grandparents' house in Tibba, where the child had been living since her father's death last year. Police later rescued the girl from the woman's residence and reunited her with her grandparents.

The accused, identified as Gulsafa of Maan Nagar, Daba, reportedly took the child with the help of another woman while she was playing outside the house in Gulabi Bagh on Wednesday (June 17), police said.

According to police, the girl had been staying with her paternal grandparents after the death of her father, Irfan, in 2025. Following his death, Gulsafa was booked on charges of abetment to suicide folowing a complaint from her in-laws', ...