GRP busts child-lifter gang in Chandauli; 2-yr-old boy rescued
VARANASI, Feb. 14 -- Government Railway Police (GRP) arrested four child lifters from Pt Deendayal Upadhyay Nagar Junction in Chandauli district on Wednesday and rescued a two-year-old child which they stole, said GRP. The child was later handed over to the parents.
A GRP officer said that information was received that a two-year-old child was stolen from Pt Deen Dayal Upadhyay Junction premises on Tuesday night.
His parents, who sell balloons at the junction, lodged the missing complaint, informing that on Tuesday night, both of them were sleeping with their two-year-old son at the eastern end. They woke up and found that the child was missing and then they reached the RPF station and informed officials that their child was stolen.
GRP PDDU Junction station house officer inspector Sunil Kumar Singh said that a team comprising GRP, RPF, and Crime Branch personnel was constituted immediately. The team launched a search and apprehended four members of a child-lifters gang at the second entry gate of PDDU Nagar during wee hours on Wednesday. The stolen child was recovered from their possession.
Arrested accused were identified as Jitendra Kumar, resident of Goh, Aurangabad; Pawan Prasad from Rohtas; Manish Kumar Sharma from Buxar; and Madhu Kumari, a resident of Charpokhari, Ara, Bihar. During interrogation, the accused revealed that they had been stealing children for a long time. They used to sell the stolen children to nursing homes in Muzaffarpur and received Rs one lakh per child.
The officer said that they also revealed that they made elaborate preparations for child theft, with a woman always accompanying them. They kept diapers, new clothes, caps, milk bottles, and saffron milk, along with intoxicating powder. They stole children sleeping at night in crowded areas. Immediately after the theft, they would feed the children milk laced with some sedative and change their clothes to avoid suspicion.
GRP station house officer stated that this was an organised gang of child lifters. The gang members used to sell stolen children for Rs 1 lakh at a nursing home in Muzaffarpur.
The accused were sent to jail and the recovered child was handed over to his parents.
Manish Sharma, senior director, Association for Voluntary Action, thanked the cops for their swift action....
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