New Delhi: In a mere six hours after his kidnapping, a four-year-old boy was rescued from the clutches of kidnappers by Delhi Police, who said that the arrested accused wanted to marry the boy's mother against her will and kidnapped her son to teach her a lesson.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (East) Pankaj Kumar Singh on Sunday said that a PCR call about the kidnapping was received at east Delhi's Madhu Vihar police station on Saturday night. Staff from the police station reached the spot, where the woman said her son had been kidnapped by one Shiv Kumar, a native of Siwan district of Bihar.
Singh said that during investigation, a tip-off was received about the accused being holed up in Connaught Place, along with the child. Soon, a police team found Kumar, arrested him and rescued the child.
"During interrogation, Shiv Kumar revealed that he wanted to marry with the child's mother, but she was not ready to marry to him. To mount pressure on her, he kidnapped the child," said the DCP.
The senior policeman added that the accused had gone to the woman's house on the pretext of wishing her on Eid. When she complainant went outside of the room, Kumar kidnapped her son and fled the spot. Kumar was reportedly going to board a train in the morning to Kolkata. Police said that Kumar is a labourer, currently residing in Howrah, West Bengal.
According to Delhi Police, more than 1,800 children were reported missing in the first four months of 2018, with around 50 per cent of these kids having been rescued and many even reunited with their families. Delhi Police data for 2018 (till April 15), accessed by Millennium Post, claimed that during this period, of the 1,812 missing children, 954 were traced.