The Delhi police have arrested four persons, including three women, for kidnapping three children from the New Delhi railway station and trafficking them, a senior officer said on Monday. Two kidnapped children, including an infant, have been rescued in the operation, the officer added.
Sharing details of the investigation, DCP (Railways) K.P.S. Malhotra said that one of the accused women had kidnapped children from the railway station from 2023 to 2025 while the other three helped prepare forged adoption documents before selling the babies to childless couples.
Mr. Malhotra said the probe was started in October 2024, when a woman lodged an FIR about the disappearance of her two-and-a-half-year-old son from the main hall of the railway station while the complainant was sleeping there. A similar case was registered on January 21 this year, when a four-month-old child was reported missing from the food court.
The police connected the dots of the case to the kidnapping of a three-year-old child at the railway station in January 2023, as, based on CCTV footage in all three cases, the children could be seen being whisked into an autorickshaw by the same woman. “When questioned, the three auto drivers said that the passengers got off near the toll gate at the Badarpur-Faridabad border,” said the DCP.
“We scanned footage of around 700 CCTV cameras and obtained the relevant telecom data to zero in on the culprits as part of a multilayered investigation, in which we also worked with the Forensics Department,” he added.
While two children have been recovered, the search for the third child is under way, the police also said.
Published - February 11, 2025 12:44 am IST
