According to a complaint registered in the Katargam police station by Vibhuti Bhaskar Desai, a teacher of municipal school no 185 at Phulpada, the accused, aged between 30 and 35, tried to lift Smita Vinodbhai -- aged 10 and a class III student -- from the road opposite the school, with intentions to kidnap her.

But even as he lifted the child and tried to run away, the girl raised an alarm after which a crowd gathered. The accused then put down Smita, a resident of Brahmin Falia, Phulpada and escaped from the scene before he could be nabbed. No arrest has been made in the case, which is being investigated by PSI A I Gadhvi.

Earlier, two girls studying in the same school were kidnapped brutally raped and murdered.