Thiruvananthapuram: Even as the accused in the abduction of the two-year-old child from Petta has been nabbed, uncertainties loom large as far as the events of the day are concerned. Police on Sunday morning nabbed Hasankutty Aliyas Kabir, a history-sheeter from Kollam. City police commissioner C. Nagarajau was not able to provide adequate information regarding many of the jarring loopholes in the case at the press conference. Police said that more clarity will come out once the accused is brought to the spot for evidence collection.

According to the police, the accused was travelling from Varkala to Kollam and alighted at Petta railway station as he fell asleep. It is said that he walked from here and reached the Chaka area around 10:30 PM. This is when he spotted the vagrant family and the child. He walked around for 20 minutes before abducting the child. However, as per the parents complaint, the child went missing around half past one. Police also do not have a clear answer as to how Kabir could find such an apt spot to abandon the child at dawn. 

It is also unusual that the child was still there till 7:45 PM, even though police had searched the area in the morning. The child was alone since being abandoned and no cries were heard. Right before the abduction, the police had come to the railway tracks as a person had been hit by a train. They said that Kabir must have come to the railway tracks with the child after police had left from there.

The two-year-old child and her brothers are currently in the care of the Thikkad Shishu welfare samiti. They were shifted here a day back. Although their mother was with them for the first two days, she was later sent with her husband upon their request. The child welfare committee decided to send her along with her husband because she was pregnant. The children have not been given to the parents as the latter do not have any documents or birth certificates. A DNA examination has been conducted to prove their paternity.

Police said that the results of the DNA test will be available on Monday.