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NEW DELHI: The Government Railway Police on Tuesday arrested a senior citizen who allegedly kidnapped a minor girl at the New Delhi railway station with the purpose of forcing her into the begging.Police said that on June 13, a woman accompanied by her two daughters aged 14 and eight came to the New Delhi railway station to board a train to Panipat. She met the accused Praveen alias Subhas (61) at the railway platform. Praveen struck a conversation with the lady and told her that he too was heading to Sonipat."As they were going towards the platform Praveen asked the 14-year-old girl if she wanted to recharge her mobile phone. When she agreed, he took her to the waiting room on platform 1 and asked her to wait while he went back with her mother and sister to platform 5. He accompanied them to a certain point and then disapperared,'' said additional DCP (railways) Sanjay BhatiaPolice said the accused then took the girl to Ghaziabad and kept her with a woman known to him. But she soon grew suspicious and took the child to the local police station."We had the girl's mobile phone location and reached Ghaziabad. We asked RPF to join the search and analysis of CCTV footage helped us identify the accused. Though the victim was reunited with her family, Praveen managed to give us the slip. However, it was on Tuesday morning that we managed to nab the accused from the Ghaziabad police station when he was planning to flee the city,'' said Bhatia.Police claimed Praveen told them that he wanted the girl to beg for him as it was easy to earn money when a child is accompanying a beggar."He told us that he stays at the stations as a vagabond and we are checking his antecedants,'' said the investigating officer, adding that a similar incident was reported from the New Delhi district area last year.