Kidnapping call sends Chandigarh police into a tizzy

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 3

The UT police went into a tizzy after they received a call that a five-year-old boy has been kidnapped from Sector 25 here last night. However, the investigation later revealed that the child’s mother, who is staying separately, had taken him along.

The police received a call that two motorcycle-borne miscreants had kidnapped a child. On getting information, the police rushed to the spot where Jai Kumar revealed that his son had been missing. In the meantime, Kumar’s wife Usha called his mother to inform that she had taken the child along.

Police officials said Usha was staying at Jagatpura for the past one month following a dispute with her husband.

“She came to Sector 25 for some work. While leaving, she took the boy along without informing her husband,” said a police official.

Usha was told to hand over the child to his grandmother. She returned the child and admitted that she should have informed the family before taking him along.

A DDR in this regard was lodged at the Sector 24 police post.

Couple sent to one-day police remand

A couple, who was nabbed by a local resident in Daria on Sunday while allegedly kidnapping a five-year-old child, was produced before a court, which sent them to one-day police remand. The couple, identified as Sajan and Kiran, residents of Mani Majra, had claimed that they were promised Rs1 lakh for a child by a man whom they met at the PGI. “Our team went to locate that person at the PGI. However, we cannot find him as we don’t have any identification or phone number of that person,” said a police official.