Nagpur: An eight-year-old boy from Ghughus in Chandrapur was abducted from his town on Tuesday and released at Sonegaon in the city in the early hours of Wednesday shortly after the kidnapper’s CCTV footage went viral on social media.
The boy managed to reach near Sonegaon police station in the darkness after asking directions from passers-by.
Police said the boy was playing at a ground when the abductor, wearing helmet, approached him stating that the former’s parents had met with an accident. The abductor asked the boy to accompany him to reach his parents. The boy readily agreed and the abductor whisked him away.
The boy’s father earns substantial rent from malls and complexes which he had built after selling farmlands. No calls were made from ransom, but police feel that someone who knew about the boy’s family’s financial status must be behind the abduction.
Senior inspector of Ghughus, Rahul Gangurde, said that police had swung into action the moment the family lodged a complaint. “We managed to procure some CCTV footages in which the abductor and the boy had been captured distinctly. The footage was circulated in different groups,” said Gangurde.
“We strongly feel the abductor got an inkling about the CCTV footage having gone viral on social media in the districts. It must have left him unnerved and decided to abandon the boy,” said the inspector.
It’s learnt, the boy gave a cell phone number to Sonegaon police’s sub-inspector Tulsiram Dhakulkar who informed his family following which he was taken back to Ghughus.
The Ghughus police were yet to zero in on the accused till filing of this report.