Mumbai: 3-yr-old lifted by her mom’s lover, found after 8 hours

Kalyan: A 3-year-old girl who had been kidnapped allegedly by her mother’s paramour from Dombivli on Tuesday, was rescued by the police from a village in

Badlapur

, 40-km after eight hours. The man, Dinesh Tiwari (42), has been arrested. He used to work with the child’s mother at a construction site.

Assistant inspector Shrikrishna Gore of Manpada police station said that Tiwari had asked the woman to elope with him, but she was not ready to abandon her husband and the child. The woman’s husband, who is also construction labourer, was away at his home town in Madhya Pradesh at the time. The police said that Tiwari then planned the abduction. Early Tuesday morning, the child’s mother woke up to find the girl missing.

Given the

circumstances

narrated by the woman coupled with the fact that Tiwari was missing, the police suspected him. They tracked him down from technical evidence. He was found 40km away, in Badlapur where the child was traced and rescued. —Pradeep Gupta