Overview

• Police said the one-year-old was reported missing on September 24 from a footpath on Pusa Road in Karol Bagh, where his vendor parents were sleeping.
• Footage showed two suspects moving the child from a scooter into a white car near RML Hospital before the vehicle was traced to Kali Bari Lane.
• Four Delhi-based suspects, including a 17-year-old, were detained there, and their interrogation led officers to Mahoba in Uttar Pradesh.
• The buyer, identified as 54-year-old Phoolan Srivas, was arrested in Mahoba, where the child was recovered unharmed and later returned to his parents after a medical check.
• Police said the boy was sold for ₹45,000 after the buyer expressed willingness to pay up to ₹1 lakh for a male child, and they seized a scooter, a car and cash as the probe continues.