Abducted baby rescued, 5 held

Tirupati: Renigunta urban police arrested five persons, including the prime accused J Ambika (34), on Thursday in relation to the

kidnap

of a six-month-old baby boy.

The police rescued and reunited the boy with his mother G Swarnalatha. Besides Ambika, the four have been identified as Mariyamma, Subba Rathnam, Kumar and Ganga, who helped Ambika in kidnapping the boy from Renigunta railway station on March 2.irupati urban SP, A Ramesh Reddy, said Swarnalatha of Takkupalli village in Anantapur district had approached the Renigunta police on March 3 and lodged a complaint that an unidentified woman had abducted her son from the Renigunta railway station on the night of March 2. Swarnalatha and her son has been staying at the platform for the past 10 days following disputes with her family.

Based on the complaint, police formed four special teams to search the boy. Cops identified the kidnapper after examining CCTV footage at the railway station. Investigation revealed that the kidnapper was from Tamil Nadu and was barren.

The police nabbed Ambika from Puttur railway station on Thursday and rescued the boy.


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