Dehradun police have arrested a couple for kidnapping and selling an infant. This child was lifted by this couple on November 5 from Premnagar locality.
The SSP of Dehradun, Ajay Rautela said that police nabbed the culprits Ankit Singhal and his accomplice Sonam from Roorkee on Saturday night and also recovered the child.The couple had lifted the 22-month-old Akash on November 5 from a slum area of Premnagar. The motorcycle-borne culprits lured the children showing chocolates, with whom the toddler was playing and then abducted the child.
The father of the child, lalaram later lodged a complaint in the cant police station and an FIR was filed by the police.
Rautela said that a joint police team comprising the cant police station and Special Operation Group (SOG) was constituted in the case. The team on the information used social media and electronic surveillance methods to zero in on the culprits.
On interrogation, the duo accepted their involvement in the crime and told the police about the whereabouts of the child. The SSP said that Singhal revealed that one of his relatives did not have any issue and were looking for a child for adoption.
Singhal told his relative that the he can arrange a child from an ashram but for this a sum of Rs50,000 is needed to be given as donation to the Ashram.
After lifting the child, the duo handed over the child to Roorkee resident Rajendra Goyal and took Rs51,000 from him. Rautela said that Singhal is a resident of village Mirzapur in Saharanpur and is having a live-in relationship with Vikasnagar resident Sonam.
The duo wanted to make easy money and has no past crime history. The police team which cracked the case comprised station officer (SO) of Cant police station V K Jetha, the in charge of SOG Ravi Saini, senior sub inspector (SSI) D M Balooni, sub inspector Mukesh Tyagi, in-charge of Prem Nagar police post Vicky Tamta, SI Sandhya Rani, constables Dabal Singh, Sachin, Anil Kumar, Pradmod, Sunil Rana, Abhishek and lalit. The SSP said that the DIG of Garhwal Sanjay Gunjyal has declared prize of Rs5000 for the police team for solving the case.