A four-month-old baby girl was abducted from a Ghaziabad railway station on Tuesday. The girl's father, Deepak, befriended two men while waiting for a train to Agra. One of the men, identified as Vikash, offered Deepak money for his daughter. While Deepak was intoxicated and his wife was using the restroom, Vikash abducted the child. Police are investigating the kidnapping.
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