03 April,2011 06:35 AM IST | | Akela
Domestic help was caught at a railway station attempting to flee with the child to New Delhi; planned to ask Rs 5 lakh ransom
The one and a half year old son of an NRI kidnapped from a Napean Sea Road building last week was rescued on Friday night from the Manmad railway station. Sangita Singh, the domestic help living in the child's grandparents' house, went missing with the boy on Wednesday afternoon.
Singh was arrested as she was trying to catch a train to New Delhi with the child. The child's parents live in the United States of America. A fortnight ago, the boy's grandfather Yatin Shah visited his daughter Minati Ankur Shah. He brought his grandson back to India for a holiday.
On March 31 at 2.30 pm, Shah found his grandson had gone missing, as had his domestic help Sangita. What made Shah suspicious was that Sangita's husband Hari Singh, who worked in the neighbouring Ashiyana building, had quit his job a day ago.
That's when Neela Shah, the boy's grandmother, registered a case of kidnapping against Singh and her husband in the Malabar Hill police station. The crime branch unit-2 investigated the case. Sub inspector Bhaskar Kadam received a tip off and reached Manmad railway station on Friday night. Singh was caught with the boy, while her husband is still absconding. On interrogation, Singh confessed that she was on her way to New Delhi and had planned to demand a ransom of Rs 5 lakh from the Shahs.
