08 August,2023 07:44 PM IST | Thane | mid-day online correspondent
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A 32-year-old father of four girls was arrested for allegedly kidnapping a 4-year-old boy at Maharashtra's Kalyan station in his desperate attempt to have a "son", an official said on Tuesday, reported the PTI.
Nashik resident Kachru Waghmare, alias Bala, allegedly committed the crime on Monday morning when the child was playing outside the waiting area at the station, on the outskirts of Mumbai, according to the PTI.
The official said Waghmare, a daily wager, left the station premises with the child. He went around Kalyan city, bought food and sweets for the child and returned to the station to board a train to Jalna, some 350 km away.
Meanwhile, the boy's father approached the Government Railway Police (GRP) saying his son had gone missing.
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The GRP registered a first information report (FIR) and began scanning the footage of the CCTV cameras installed on the station premises. The footage showed Waghmare moving with the boy.
GRP nabbed Waghmare when he returned to the station, the official said, adding that he was planning to board a train to Jalna.
"Waghmare has four daughters. He said he was desperate to have a son so he kidnapped the child," the official said.
In an another incident, a man allegedly abducted his three-year-old son from his estranged wife's custody in broad daylight in Maharashtra's Nagpur city, police said on Tuesday, reported the PTI.
The incident took place in Tulsinagar area of Nagpur city on Monday morning, an official told the PTI.
The woman was reportedly riding a two-wheeler with her son when a car allegedly intercepted the vehicle and her husband and his accomplice got down and snatched the boy and sped away, he said.
The woman immediately approached Shanti Nagar police station and lodged a complaint of kidnapping, the official said.
A search operation has been launched and a team has been dispatched to the accused's house in Khandwa in neighbouring Madhya Pradesh, he said.
According to the police, the woman, a resident of Shanti Nagar, married the accused in 2019. She was allegedly subjected to physical torture by her husband and his family members.
The woman had filed a complaint with the Khandwa police and returned to Nagpur with her son, the official said.
The situation escalated when the accused sent his wife a divorce notice and expressed his intention to take away their child, he added.
(with PTI inputs)
