Brave boy’s day out

Nine-year-old boy fights abductors; foils kidnap bid

Brave boy's day out

Nine-year-old boy fights abductors; foils kidnap bidu00a0

Nine-year-old Kapil from east Delhi was almost kidnapped and bundled off to Bihar had it not been for his own bravery.

The student of Class III at Bal Vikas Vidyalaya, Trilokpuri, fought and managed to escape from the clutches of his kidnappers as they were taking him by train to Bihar.

His screams for help alarmed the police and he was rescued at Kanpur station on Sunday morning. The child is being brought back by the cops from Kanpur and should arrive home by today morning.

The kidnap bid

Kapil had left for his school at 8 am on Saturday. But when he did not return home till afternoon, his father Shyambir Singh, an automobile garage owner, went looking for his son. Shyambir reached his school at about 3 pm. There he got to know from Kapil's friends that two persons, known to Kapil, had taken him away on a cycle rickshaw, after the school got over. The children said Kapil had referred to the two as Devender and Mukim, employees at Shyambir's garage.

When Shyambir visited Mukim's house at Trilokpuri along with the cops, he was arrested. Mukim, however, denied any knowledge of the kidnapping. Devender's house was locked.

Meanwhile, the police received a call from the Government Railway Police at Kanpur Central Railway Station that a boy from Delhi had been rescued. "We got a call from the GRP officials that a nine-year-old boy had been abandoned by certain persons accompanying him on a Delhi-Patna train after he started crying," said a cop.

The police said Mukim was also involved and had planned to run away a day later. "The two were in debt because of their continuous drinking and had planned to make easy money by selling the victim. Mukim said he was mistreated by the victim's father and the two had planned to kidnap his son to take revenge. We are looking for Devender," said a senior police official.

Kidnap capital
July 30 Ribhu Chawla, a Class XI student of KR Mangalam School in west Delhi's Vikaspuri, was kidnapped from outside his house. The kidnappers had demanded a ransom of Rs 15 lakh, which was paid by the victim's father. Yet, the boy was killed. The police recovered the ransom money later.u00a0

July 24 Naveen Kumar, a 25-year-old private bank employee, was abducted for ransom at Pandav Nagar, east Delhi. The abductors had demanded a ransom of Rs 25 lakh and later murdered Naveen in panic, as the victim recognised them. The police arrested three people in connection with the case.

July 21 The maternal grandfather and uncle of a two-year-old boy abducted him. The boy was the son of a security agency owner. The police arrested the duo two weeks later and reunited the boy with his family.