Man arrested for kidnapping child

Puttur Rural police have arrested Mahesh, 33, a resident of Kabaka, in connection with the kidnapping of a seven-year-old boy on Sunday. The boy was rescued and handed over to the Dakshina Kannada Child Welfare Committee (CWC), recently. It is now confirmed that the boy travelled from Krantivira Sangolli Rayanna railway station in Bengaluru to Puttur along with Mahesh and Shilpa, who are daily wage workers. Sources said that Mahesh confessed that the couple found the boy at the railway station, and that the boy was shivering in the cold. Since there was no one around, and the boy agreed to come along with them, they brought him to Puttur.
In a related development, the boy has said that his grandparents work at the railway station. Based on his statement, a police team with the help of Bengaluru Railway police, investigated the matter. Efforts are on to trace the boy’s parents. tnn