Hyderabad, July 3 -- Chandanagar police busted an interstate child trafficking racket and rescued a one-month-old baby girl who was kidnapped from her mother while the family, members of a circus troupe, was sleeping on a pavement near Lingampally railway station.

According to police, the complainant, a 25-year-old circus worker from Balki village in Karnataka's Bidar district, was sleeping with members of her circus group along the wall of Lingampally railway station in the early hours of June 30.

At around 2 am, unidentified men arrived in an auto-rickshaw and forcibly snatched her one-month-old daughter. The mother woke up to the infant's cries and tried to chase the vehicle but could not catch it. A case was registered at Chandanaga...