Maharashtra: Five held for kidnapping six-month-old boy
What's the story
With the arrest of five persons, including two married couples, police at Kalyan in Maharashtra's Thane district on Wednesday claimed to have cracked the kidnapping case of a six-month-old boy. The incident happened during the intervening night of June 5 and 6 when a 30-year-old woman from Bihar was sleeping with her two children near a shop close to a temple in Kalyan.
Incident
Kidnappers wanted to sell the child for Rs. 1 lakh
While she was asleep, some unidentified persons kidnapped her six-month-old son. After she realized that her baby was missing, she approached the police, who registered a case of kidnapping. The police started probing the case and checked the CCTV footage. During the probe, they came to know that the accused wanted to sell the child to someone for Rs. 1,00,000.
Accused
Accused were nabbed while en route to sell the child
"Based on the intelligence inputs, the police on Tuesday arrested three accused - Aarti Kunal Kot, (22), Heena Majid (26) and her husband Farhan Abdul Razak Majid (38) - while they were taking the child for sale in an auto," the police official said. "Two other accused, identified as Vishal Trimbake (20) and Kunal Kot (23), were also arrested later," police said.
Police custody
They have been remanded to police custody till June 14
"While Vishal and Kunal kidnapped the child, the Majid couple and Aarti were taking him in an auto to be handed over to a woman in exchange for Rs. 1 lakh. However, their plan was foiled as police nabbed them in time," he said. The arrested accused were produced before a local court on Wednesday, which remanded them to police custody till June 14.