Delhi Police Rescue 7-Year-Old, Arrest Four in Cross-Border Kidnapping
Investigators say the abduction was meant to pressure the boy's mother to resume a past relationship.
Overview
- The child was recovered unharmed from a farmhouse in Hansi, Haryana, after being taken from West Delhi.
- Four suspects — Ajay Verma, 24, Amit, 18, Sachin, 20, and Ajay, 20 — were arrested in coordinated operations in Haryana and Delhi.
- Police say Verma, the mother's former live-in partner, orchestrated the abduction to coerce her into returning to him.
- CCTV analysis, technical surveillance and social-media tracking led investigators to the suspects despite phones being switched off.
- Mobile phones and a country-made pistol were seized, with cases registered under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita kidnapping sections and the Arms Act; police also reported a separate Bhajanpura arrest of a 19-year-old seen firing an illegal weapon on video.