The central district police uploaded the child’s details on ZIPNET, even as the railway police located the child on the tracks. (Representational image)

Hours after a seven-month-old baby was kidnapped from central Delhi and dumped on the tracks at Nizamuddin railway station, local and railway police reunited the boy with his family using ZIPNET (Zonal Integrated Police Network) — an integrated police network to fight trafficking.

According to police, the child’s family lives on the streets near DB Gupta Road in central Delhi. While his mother is blind, the father is handicapped.

On the intervening night of November 9-10, police said they received a PCR call from the parents that their child had been kidnapped while they were sleeping. A team from the local police station lodged an FIR.

The central district police uploaded the child’s details on ZIPNET, even as the railway police located the child on the tracks.

“We received a call around 2 pm on Saturday from a passerby, that a child was lying on the tracks at Nizamuddin station. Staff from Nizamuddin Railway police station was sent to recover the child. They admitted him to a shelter home and then produced him before a Child Welfare Committee,” said DCP (railway) D K Gupta. Staff of Nizamuddin station subsequently uploaded the photograph and details of the boy on ZIPNET and sent messages on their district’s WhatsApp group.

“While scanning the portal, we found that a case about the same child was registered at DBG Road police station. We immediately, informed the DBG Road station about the child,” said an officer from the railway police.

Police said the parents were taken to the shelter home to meet their child. “The boy will be handed over to the parents on Friday. The kidnappers are yet to be traced. We are questioning persons known to the family for clues,” said an officer from the central district police.