The Delhi police on Saturday won the praise of the family of a six-year-old boy who it claimed was rescued within four hours of being kidnapped.
Soon after the family members of Netak Bansal approached the Madhu Vihar police station with the complaint that their son had been kidnapped, a team of inspectors R.K. Saha, K.P. Shah and others immediately swung into action and arrested the accused, identified as Kuldeep Singh, while he was on his way to Etah, Uttar Pradesh, with the boy. “We learnt that Kuldeep, who assisted the boy’s father at his provisional store, had left behind a note asking for '5 lakh ransom,” said the cops, adding, “We immediately the boy’s father for Kuldeep’s number and put it under surveillance. Initially Kuldeep’s phone was shown to be in Dadri but later it was established that he was trying to flee to Etah on a bus.”
A police team was sent immediately to Etah along with the boy’s father and a nakabandi was set up near Kasba Panaithi in Aligarh district, 30-40 km from Delhi. “At the nakabandi we checked each and every vehicle passing through and finally caught Kuldeep on one of the roadways buses,” said inspector K.P. Shah, who led the police team, adding, “Kuldeep was then arrested and the boy rescued.”
Kuldeep disclosed during interrogation that he committed the crime to repay a loan for which he had mortgaged his ancestral home in Etah.
When the cops reached the boy’s home to hand over the child safely to the family, his mother, holding a framed photo of her god in her hands, thanked the police team.
