Kanpur: A three-year-old boy was abducted from his house on late Friday evening, and was rescued by the Kalyanpur police few hours later.
As per police, the prime accused, identified as Aditya Pathak, is the victim’s neighbour who planned the kidnap. Pathak and his accomplice Shailendra have been arrested.. The kidnappers took the child from near his residence on Shivli road to Mandhana, but were nabbed after being informed by an alert meter-reader, said the police.
The child identified as Rishi, son of a bakery shop owner Amit Shukla, was under the observation of Pathak and his accomplice Shailendra for the past few days.
After monitoring the boy’s routine activities, the accused lured him over some pretext and kidnapped him from near his Shivli road residence on late Friday evening.
Shailendra, took the child to a sub-station in Mandhana where his friend’s elder brother Abhishek Soni works as a meter reader in an E -rickshaw. “On seeing the child crying constantly, Abhishek sensed something amiss and immediately alerted the PRV. Following the SOS call, the PRV personnel rushed to the spot and took Shailendra and the kidnapped boy into their custody,m and later handed them over to Kalyanpur police for further investigation,” informed Kalyanpur inspector Ajay Seth. “On the basis of inputs provided by Shailendra, police swung into action and managed to nab Aditya Pathak, the mastermind of the plan and the neighbour of the victim. We have also recovered a letter in which they demanded a ransom of Rs 15 lakh for his safe release. They told the investigators that they were supposed to drop the letter at Rishi’s house soon after the kidnapping, but could not. In the letter, they also threatened the family not to inform the police,” said the inspector.
“We have registered a case and booked the two accused under charges of IPC 363 (Punishment for kidnapping). Further investigations are underway,” he added.