Kidnapped 11-month-old baby rescued, man held

New Delhi: A 39-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping an 11-month-old baby boy from Delhi’s Jaitpur. Motivated by the desire for a son, suspect Naveen Mishra, a BCom graduate, committed the crime, police said. His wife later surrendered the child to the cops.
Police received information about kidnapping at 8.34 pm on Wednesday. The boy’s mother Rashmi told cops that she runs a beauty parlour at Nala Road in Jaitpur and had gone there with her children - a girl (about eight) and the boy.
“Around 8pm, when her son began crying, she asked her daughter to take him outside to quiet him down.After some time, when Rashmi went outside, she found her daughter alone. Her son was nowhere to be seen,” said Rajesh Deo, DCP (south-east).
When the woman questioned her daughter, the girl told her that a man on a motorcycle had taken the boy away, police said. After reviewing CCTVs’ footage, police identified a suspect carrying the child on a motorcycle which was registered in the name of Kanchan Mishra, a Jaitpur resident, the DCP said.
At 10.40am on Thursday, Kanchan Mishra came to Jaitpur police station with the kidnapped child, Deo said, adding she could not give a satisfactory reply when questioned. Police immediately nabbed her husband from their house.
“He told us that when he was passing through Nala Road, he saw that a girl playing on the road and a baby boy crying near her. He stopped his bike, took the child in his lap, and brought him home because he didn’t have any son of his own,” the DCP said, adding Naveen told the cops that after learning about the ongoing search for the child, he became frightened and asked his wife to hand the child over to police.