RALPH BAN­WARIE

Free­lance Writer

Teenag­er Savi­ta “Priya” Pablo, who was re­port­ed ab­duct­ed on Thurs­day, was res­cued by po­lice of­fi­cers as she was be­ing trans­port­ed in a car by the sus­pects along the Va­len­cia Stretch yes­ter­day.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, the ve­hi­cle which Pablo, 15, was be­ing con­veyed in was spot­ted by some of her rel­a­tives around 2.30 pm. Apart from the dri­ver, there were two oth­er oc­cu­pants in­side, in­clud­ing a fe­male who was not Pablo.

The teen’s rel­a­tives im­me­di­ate­ly con­tact­ed po­lice and mem­bers of the Hunters’ Search and Res­cue Team, who had been in­volved in a search for her since she was grabbed and bun­dled in­to a car out­side her La Sei­va Road, Ve­ga De Oropouche, San­gre Grande home on Thurs­day.

An All Points Bul­letin was sent out by the po­lice, who al­so set up strate­gi­cal­ly at ar­eas of en­try and ex­it in and out of San­gre Grande.

Re­spond­ing of­fi­cers lat­er en­gaged in a high-speed chase in pur­suit of the sus­pect’s car, which was even­tu­al­ly in­ter­cept­ed near Pine Av­enue.

When po­lice ap­proached the ve­hi­cle and or­dered the sus­pects out, they re­alised Pablo was ly­ing low in the back seat. She was re­moved by po­lice while the dri­ver, al­leged ab­duc­tor and a fe­male were ar­rest­ed and tak­en to the San­gre Grande Po­lice Sta­tion.

Priya, who po­lice said was vis­i­bly trau­ma­tised by her or­deal, was then tak­en to the San­gre Grande Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal for med­ical ob­ser­va­tion.

The sus­pects re­mained de­tained at the San­gre Grande sta­tion last night.

When Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed Pablo’s fam­i­ly at their La Sei­va Road home last evening, neigh­bours were al­so gath­er­ing at the house. They all seemed hap­py at the news she was safe but ad­mit­ted to be­ing ex­haust­ed by the or­deal.

Rel­a­tives said she had just re­turned from school on Thurs­day and was sit­ting out­side when a blue ve­hi­cle stopped in front he house with the dri­ver, two males and one fe­male in­side.

The dri­ver, ac­com­pa­nied by a fe­male, pro­ceed­ed to where Priya was sit­ting and rel­a­tives then heard a com­mo­tion. They said when they looked out­side, they saw Priya be­ing forced in­to the ve­hi­cle back seat be­fore the dri­ver sped off. A re­port was im­me­di­ate­ly made to the po­lice.

The Pablo fam­i­ly thanked all those in­volved in the search and res­cue of their daugh­ter.

Mem­bers of the An­ti-Kid­nap­ping Unit, led by ASP Ram­dass, and mem­bers of the San­gre Grande Po­lice Sta­tion, led by In­sp Kistow, spear­head­ed the search ac­tiv­i­ties, while PC Ramkhelawan, of San­gre Grande CID, is con­tin­u­ing en­quiries.