Agra, July 1 -- A nine-month-old girl was recovered and two accused were arrested by the Mathura police on Tuesday. The two accused had lifted the sleeping child and attempted to hand it over to a childless woman for money, but the deal did not materialise.

"A case was registered under section 137(2) (kidnapping) of Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) against unidentified accused at Jait police station of Mathura district on the complaint of kidnapping of a nine month old girl child, sleeping with parents, from the footpath near Chandrodaya temple, alongside Chatkara Vrindavan Marg, on the night of June 26," said SSP, Mathura, Shlok Kumar, at a press conference, in Mathura, on Tuesday.

"The team of SOG, surveillance and police reviewed at leas...