DGP Abhayanand (second from left) with Naseema Khatun whose eight-year-old daughter’s hand was allegedly amputated by criminals. Picture by Deepak Kumar

Director-general of police Abhayanand ordered a CID probe into the amputation of an eight-year-old girl’s hand at a railway station, on Friday, after her mother approached the chief minister.

Her parents allege that some criminals, who allegedly abducted their son, chopped off the girl’s hand as she was the sole witness, but the police had said she fell off a train.

On Monday, Uzma Ara’s mother Naseema Khatun, a tailor’s wife, turned up at chief minister Nitish Kumar’s janata durbar at 1 Aney Marg. There was a long queue of women complainants and she fainted five times before getting the chief minister’s audience. A woman constable noticed Naseema faint while queuing up with her two-year-old daughter. She was offered a chair and some glucose. A doctor was called.

Nitish was sounded. He asked officials to bring Naseema before him right away. Naseema was allowed to jump the queue. A chair was arranged. She sat there and offered her application to the chief minister. Nitish read it calmly while Naseema began crying hysterically. He tried consoling her. “Your son is missing. Have you lodged an FIR? Do not cry. We will do whatever we can.”

He then called principal secretary Anjani Kumar Singh and directed Naseema: “You go and talk to Anjani babu. He will help you.” After Naseema briefed him, Anjani took her to DGP Abhayanand. There, too, Naseema fainted and doctor had to be called. Anjani told her: “Do not cry, you wanted to meet the DGP. Here he is. Tell him your problem. He will give you justice.”

Abhayanand asked her whom she wanted to entrust the case to. “If you do not trust Darbhanga or Patna police, you tell me your choice. If you want me to transfer the case to CID, I will be happy to do so.”

Naseema said: “Sir, I just want justice and want those criminals who have chopped off my daughter’s hand behind bars.” The DGP said: “Ok, I am transferring this case to the CID and they will probe it afresh.” He then called ADG (CID) AK Upadhyaya and told Naseema: “He will investigate your case.”

Naseema was then asked to brief Upadhyaya. She told him: “Sir, my son Zulfikar Alam was abducted by Bobby Khan’s gang on May 25. My daughter Ara was the sole witness. They asked us for Rs 2 lakh in ransom. We paid up but even then they did not free him. Three days back we decided to meet the DGP and reached Rajendra Nagar terminal from Darbhanga. However, the gang followed us and as soon as we alighted from the train and came out of the station, some 20-25 men attacked us. They chopped off Ara’s hand.”

In response to a query, Upadhyaya told The Telegraph: “The case will be probed afresh on two angles, chopping of the girl’s hand and the kidnapping.”

A PTI report said Patna senior superintendent of police Manu Maharaj stands by the preliminary probe which found that the girl lost her hand in an accident after falling off a train.