Sunday, 18 December 2022 | PNS | HARIDWAR
Accused absconding after leaving the child in Deoband
The police have recovered a five-year-old boy who had been kidnapped from Haridwar on December 9. The Haridwar police recovered the child from Deoband in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh on Saturday. The two accused kidnappers are currently absconding but will be arrested soon, said the police.
Two bike-borne men had kidnapped the five-year-old child from Rodibelwala area in the Haridwar Kotwali area. Chetan Gupta and Mayank Gupta, two sons of daily wager Arvind Gupta who resides in Rodibelwala Maidan, were playing near a Sulabh Shauchalaya on December 9. It is alleged that when the boys were playing, two youths approached them on a motorcycle and struck up a conservation with them. The youth lured the younger brother Mayank Gupta saying they will treat him to bread pakoda and took him away. The elder brother informed his parents about this after which the relatives approached the police.
The police had checked CCTV cameras installed on the highway to identify the kidnappers. On the orders of the Haridwar senior superintendent of police Ajai Singh, the Haridwar police and Special Operation Group (SOG) started the search for the missing boy. The Haridwar SOG in-charge Narendra Singh Bisht had recently received some concrete inputs about the location of the child. Acting on the inputs, a team was deployed in Deoband and after investigating for two days, the police recovered the kidnapped child safely from the Deoband area on Saturday afternoon.
Singh said that after the information about the kidnapping of the child spread on social media, the kidnappers left the child in Deoband and fled. “Our priority was to recover the child safely.The kidnappers have been identified, but are still absconding. The police will arrest them soon,” said the SSP.
