A three-and-a-half-year-old boy, who was allegedly kidnapped from Meena Bazaar in Old Delhi four days ago, has been traced and safely reunited with his parents, the police said on Friday.
A resident of Om Nagar reported that his son had been missing from near Jama Masjid metro station since the evening of March 31. The boy was accompanied by his mother and other relatives who had come to visit Jama Majid and Meena Bazar Sunday Market on that day, they said.
The details of the child was uploaded on ZIPNET and a notice was circulated to all police stations in Delhi and NCR. CCTV footage in the vicinity of Jama Masjid was also analysed, the police said. In a footage, a Burkha-clad woman was spotted along with the boy on Urdu Bazaar Road 6.32 pm.
She went up to Bazaar Matia Mahal with the child and boarded a rickshaw. She was then seen going towards Chitli Qabar, Chandni Mahal, DCP (Central) Mandeep Singh Randhawa said.
As the rickshaw puller was interrogated, he said the woman had asked him to drop her at Turkman Gate Chowk so that she could board an autorickshaw for Seelampur. The woman along with the child had boarded an auto for Seelampur, he said. The auto driver was then identified and interrogated. He told the police that he had dropped them at Buland Masjid in Seelampur. The unknown accused left the child at Jama Masjid on Thursday, the police said, adding that the motive behind the incident was not clear yet.