Mumbai: The city police have successfully rescued two young boys from their abductors in two different cases after a meticulous plan that helped them find the little children unharmed.
In the first case, six-year-old Karnit Shah from suburban Kandivili went missing on April 6 while playing in his building compound after which his parents, Anant and Alpa, filed a police complaint.
Initially, police had no clues since no call came from the kidnappers, who the police say did not even know whose child they had abducted. They got the boy's father's mobile number on April 17 from the posters put up in the area where Karnit lived.
Police traced the first ransom call demanding Rs10 million to Malad. A subsequent call on April 18 was traced to Allahabad. With the help of Uttar Pradesh police, the city team tracked down the kidnapper to a village in Handiya where the boy was found unharmed in Sujit Bind's house on Wednesday.
Karnit was flown back to Mumbai and handed over to his parents. Sonalal Gupta is said to be the main plotter. Sameer Khan, Sandeep Barose and Bind have also been arrested.
In another case, three and a half-year-old Sufiyan was kidnapped as he played outside his grandmother's house in Goregaon suburb on April 19.
Caller identified
The family later received a call from the kidnapper. The accused, Salman Shaikh, 22, who earlier worked in the garage owned by Sufiyan's father, Anwar Abdul Khan, sent a message to Anwar's mobile phone demanding Rs70,000, which they wanted to be handed over at Banaras railway junction on April 22. A police team managed to identify the caller, who had used fake documents to procure the SIM card, and arrested him. The child was being held at Silvassa, some 170km from Mumbai.
Shaikh's accomplice, 19 year old co-worker Kaleem Siddiqui, is still absconding.
In the first case, six-year-old Karnit Shah from suburban Kandivili went missing on April 6 while playing in his building compound after which his parents, Anant and Alpa, filed a police complaint.
Initially, police had no clues since no call came from the kidnappers, who the police say did not even know whose child they had abducted. They got the boy's father's mobile number on April 17 from the posters put up in the area where Karnit lived.
Police traced the first ransom call demanding Rs10 million to Malad. A subsequent call on April 18 was traced to Allahabad. With the help of Uttar Pradesh police, the city team tracked down the kidnapper to a village in Handiya where the boy was found unharmed in Sujit Bind's house on Wednesday.
Karnit was flown back to Mumbai and handed over to his parents. Sonalal Gupta is said to be the main plotter. Sameer Khan, Sandeep Barose and Bind have also been arrested.
In another case, three and a half-year-old Sufiyan was kidnapped as he played outside his grandmother's house in Goregaon suburb on April 19.
Caller identified
The family later received a call from the kidnapper. The accused, Salman Shaikh, 22, who earlier worked in the garage owned by Sufiyan's father, Anwar Abdul Khan, sent a message to Anwar's mobile phone demanding Rs70,000, which they wanted to be handed over at Banaras railway junction on April 22. A police team managed to identify the caller, who had used fake documents to procure the SIM card, and arrested him. The child was being held at Silvassa, some 170km from Mumbai.
Shaikh's accomplice, 19 year old co-worker Kaleem Siddiqui, is still absconding.
