Richa Aggarwal, daughter of Santosh Aggarwal, a hosiery factory owner in the Govindpuri area, who was abducted on February 21 by two persons from the playground near her house was recovered from Dineshpur village in Uttar Pradesh by two special teams of the south district police, deputy commissioner of police (South) P K Srivasatava said.

The girl was traced after police nabbed a person moving in suspicious circumstances near the spot from where the ransom was to be collected, he said, adding following sustained interrogation the arrested person, Ajay, an ex-employee of Aggarwal said his brother alias Gurang had hatched the plan. Vijay, who managed to slip away during the melee, was later nabbed while trying to board a bus to Pilibhit district.

``Both the kidnappers were ex-employees of the girl'sfather and had become very friendly with the family. They hatched the conspiracy after leaving their job,'' the DCP said.

Meanwhile, a highly decomposed body of a girl child aged between eight to 10 years was found by police in the Tukmirpur area while an unidentified young woman succumbed to injuries sustained in an accident near Jaslok Hospital, police said.