Alert passengers help police arrest woman kidnapper in train

GURUGRAM: After being able to kidnap a 1.5-year-old child, 35-year-old Lakshmi would have been successful in selling the child in Kosli had she not been caught in the train in which she was traveling.

The passengers began to suspect due to repeated weeping of the child who also began hitting her. Suspecting that all was not right, the passengers got in touch with the rail police and got the woman arrested.

It was later revealed that the woman, who was residing in the slums of Wazirabad area in Sector-53 had abducted the child identified as Lucky Sharma from the park on March 14.

The parents of the child who have come from Rajasthan were staying in Wazirabad village.

"The child has been reunited with the parents. Alert passengers and the coordination between the police led to this case being a success," said a senior official from Gurugram Police.

There were 193 children that went missing in Gurugram in the year 2019. Most of the children remain untraced. In 2019, out of the missing children there were 148 girls and 48 boys.

The Gurugram Police have been able to only find 27 boys and 96 girls.

The year that has gone by has been a continuation of a worrying trend of the growing list of missing children in the city. From 2012-2018, there were 1,252 children that went missing from the city.

Having achieved the dubious record of leading in sexual crimes against minors, this year has brought in more bad news for Gurugram. Two cases of gruesome sexual crimes have already been registered this year.

Gurugram along with its counterpart Faridabad is leading in terms of sexual crimes against minors.

A spate of brutal sexual crimes has shaken the conscience of the citizens in the three districts of South Haryana – Gurugram, Faridabad, and Nuh.

While the crimes against minors are not new in Gurugram and Faridabad, the

gruesomeness has brought in fear among the residents.