Family members of a 13-year-old girl who went missing from a village in Malda district on October 9 suspect she was abducted and trafficked.

The girl’s relatives alleged police inaction and demanded immediate action to trace her. The law enforcers, however, said they had identified the suspected abductor, registered a case against him and were trying to find out the girl’s whereabouts.

Sources said the Class VII student had left her home to take private tuitions on October 9 and did not return.

“We enquired with the tutor who said she did not attend the tuition on that day. It seems she was abducted soon after she had stepped out of home. We have learnt from some people that one youth kidnapped her. We are worried over her safety and suspect she was trafficked,” said the girl’s brother.

The youth suspected of having kidnapped the girl hasn’t been at his home for the past few days, the sources said.

The inspector-in-charge of the police station where the case was registered against the accused said: “We are searching for him. We have received some inputs about the girl’s probable current location. The information is being verified and if it is correct, police will rescue her immediately.”