A two-year-old boy who was allegedly kidnapped from the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) on Sunday was rescued within 24 hours by the Mumbai Railway Police. A woman, Parvathidevi Vishwakarma (40), has been arrested in connection with the case.
According to police officers, Sunny Saatdive went missing from CSMT at 10 p.m. on November 4. The police said that Sunny was waiting with his mother Vimal at the station awaiting his father’s arrival. The police said that Ms. Vimal fell asleep and found Sunny missing when she woke up. She looked for him all around the station and approached the railway police when she failed to find him.
Deputy Commissioner of Police Purushottam Karad, Mumbai Railway Police, said, “We examined the CCTV footage of the spot where Ms. Vimal and Sunny had been waiting. We saw a woman take Sunny away while Ms. Vimal was sleeping. Using the CCTV network, we traced her movements to Nallasopara.”
On Monday, the police sent a team to Nallasopara, where the CCTV footage at the station showed the woman carrying Sunny in her arms and getting into an autorickshaw outside the station. The police made inquiries and traced Manoj Srivastav, the driver of the auto the suspect got into. Mr. Srivastav told the police that he dropped the woman and Sunny at a locality in Tulinj village in Nallasopara.
Mr. Karad said, “Our team went to Nallasopara and began making inquiries among people in the village. The team learned that an extra male child was noticed in one family. The team went to the household and found Sunny. They then arrested Parvathidevi Vishwakarma and rescued the boy.”
Mr. Karad said the woman admitted during her interrogation that she abducted Sunny because she could not bear a son despite 20 years of marriage.