Kidnapped in Delhi, rescued in Jammu

A six-year-old boy from Delhi who had been kidnapped by a “mentally unstable” woman was rescued from Katra in Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Tuesday.

The woman, 19, has been arrested and sent to a hospital for treatment, said police. Nishant’s parents were exhilarated after being reunited with their only child this Dussehra after a gap of three days. Nishant had been missing since October 8 when he had gone to a park near his house, said police.

After his disappearance, a missing person complaint was registered at South Delhi’s South Campus police station, and police searched him in the entire city. Few days back, Railway Protection Force (RPF) at the Katra Railway station detained a woman on suspicion who was roaming with a minor boy.

“During her search, phone number of her brother was found from her purse, following which her brother was called in Katra,” said a senior police officer. When her brother reached Katra, he informed the RPF personnel about the unsound mental condition of his sister.

He also told RPF that his sister had come to Delhi from her native town Muzzaffarnagar with her relatives to get herself treated at the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences (IHBAS).

After few days of arriving in the capital, she ran away from her relatives and had been missing since until she was found in Katra. “The RPF then contacted the Delhi Police and told us about the boy who was with the woman,” the officer added.

A team of RPF personnel then reached Delhi along with the woman and Nishant.Police said the woman had taken Nishant along with her from the park, but how she reached Katra is still being investigated.

The woman allegedly intimidated and physically assaulted the boy to make her go with her. A case of kidnapping is registered at the South Campus police station, and police are waiting for the woman to get a green signal from the doctors so that she could be questioned in the case.

The minor boy could also be questioned to know more about the entire episode, said police.