Woman, relative arrested for abducting boy from south Delhi

New Delhi: Delhi Police on Sunday claimed to have arrested two people including a woman for their alleged involvement in the kidnapping case in South Delhi's Lodhi Colony area.

Law enforcement officials claimed that the arrest was made with the help of a person who was enrolled in the Eyes and Ear Scheme of police. The accused were identified as Bhajan Singh and Radha. Both are natives of Madhya Pradesh and are currently living in a slum near Jangpura Metro station.

Police said on February 9, one Balram Gautam had complained that his nephew aged seven was kidnapped by some unknown persons from outside the temple in Lodhi Road in the afternoon of February 8. Police team started checking CCTV footage of temple, and in one of the footage a lady was seen carrying the boy in her lap.

"After developing photographs of the footage all the team members started searching the boy in the vicinity around the temple. At this point of time one lady who is a member of Eyes and Ear Scheme informed police that she had seen a lady carrying the kidnapped child. She also further informed that one man was with the lady and she can identify both of them," said Additional DCP (south) Vijayanta Arya.

DCP further claimed that on February 10 at around 4:30 pm the said member of the E&E scheme further informed a police personnel that the accused woman and man were around the temple again. The police team immediately swung into action and apprehended both accused - the man and the woman. They admitted their crime and disclosed that the kidnapped boy had been confined in their slum near MTNL building near Jangpura Metro Station.

The police team immediately raided the slum of the accused and rescued the kidnapped boy. Relatives of the boy were called in who identified the victim. During interrogation accused Radha confessed that she has two children with her husband. But after having some dispute with her husband, she left his home and came to Delhi with her brother-in-law Bhajan Singh.

"As her husband didn't give the custody of any of her child, when she saw the victim outside a temple in Lodhi Road, she kidnapped the child," said a police official.