Daijiworld Media Network - Bulandshahr (SHP)
Bulandshahr, Feb 7: A four-year-old while playing outside his home was kidnapped from north Delhi’s Bhalswa Dairy last week. The child was sold over three times before being rescued by the police from Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday, police said.
Investigators tracked down a couple who paid Rs 4.5 lac for the kidnapped kid. Reportedly the couple were longing for a healthy child since their 18-year-old son is physically challenged.
The kidnapped boy lives with his parents in Bhalswa Dairy. His father does odd jobs while his mother is a homemaker.
On January 31, he was playing outside his home when he went missing. Frantic mother then approached the police who filed a kidnapping case. As per DCP (outer north district) Gaurav Sharma, investigators scanned the CCTV footage for more clues.
“Footage from one of the cameras showed a woman taking away the child. We identified her as 28-year-old Rummy, who lives in the same neighbourhood,” said Sharma.
The police investigations revealed that one of the accused, Rummy allegedly kidnapped the child at the behest of man, Kapil, who lives in Hapur. With the information provided by Rummy, the police went on to arrest Kapil and his wife and from them learnt that they had sold the child to a man on whose demand they had outsourced the work to Rummy. Kapil was paid Rs 70,000 for the work. However, a middleman involved is on the run.
But following the chain, the police reached a couple in Bulandshahar who had finally bought the child for Rs 4.5 lac, the DCP said. While the husband remains on the run, the 50-year-old wife, Sunita, was arrested and the boy was rescued on Tuesday.
Another investigator said the couple had been wanting a healthy son. “Whether this couple asked the middleman to kidnap a child or arrange one by other means will be confirmed when we arrest the two absconding suspects,” said the investigator, adding the middleman’s arrest and interrogation will shed light on whether he was operating a child-lifting racket.