Overview
- The eight-month-old was taken as his migrant parents slept on a foot overbridge at Kalyan Railway Station and was recovered unharmed within about six hours.
- Station CCTV captured a man carrying the child; the footage was circulated and a Mahatma Phule Police Station constable identified the suspect as 22-year-old Akshay Khare.
- Khare and his aunt, Savita Khare, were arrested in Kalyan, and officers recovered the infant from Savita’s home, according to police.
- A kidnapping case under Section 137(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita has been registered, with both detainees to be produced in court on Wednesday.
- During interrogation, Khare said he picked up a crying child while the parents slept, as investigators also examine possible plans to sell the baby or use him for begging.