The Juhu police on Tuesday claimed to have busted a major inter-State kidnapping and human traffic racket, with the rescue of a 4-month-old infant from Telangana state and arrest of three persons who had sold the kid for Rs 4 lakh.
Acting on a complaint lodged by a resident from a poor family living at Juhu in north-west Mumbai on November 11 that his four-month-old male child had been taken away by some unidentified abductors, Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh had formed a special team, led by Senior Police Inspector Pandharinath Wahval, to crack the case.
In the absence of any evidence or witnesses, the police team used tech-intel ad and police informers to crack the kidnapping case.
During the course of investigation, the police learnt that after abducting the infant, the miscreants had ‘sold’ the child for Rs 4 lakh to some persons in Telangana.
While one of the accused was arrested Andheri (west), another person was taken into custody from Bongir in Nalgonda district. The third one was arrested from Saroornagar near Hyderabad.
“We have arrested three persons. We have rescued the child and handed him over his parents,” Additional Commissioner of Police (West) Sandeep Karnik said.