Overview
- A PCR call at 3:18 am on November 4 reported the child missing after he left for a nearby shop around 7 pm on November 3.
- Officers registered an FIR and launched searches using CCTV reviews, circulated photos, and door-to-door checks.
- The boy was found injured in bushes near railway tracks, taken to a hospital for treatment, and later handed over to his family.
- Investigators identified and arrested Mohammad Samem, 23, from Shakurbasti using technical surveillance and local intelligence.
- Police said Samem confessed to the kidnapping and assault over a personal grudge; a special team is probing further under BNS Sections 137(2) and 140(2).