The case of the kidnapping of an eight-month-old baby girl from Boisar railway station was cracked within eight hours on Friday, with the arrest of the accused, Kishore Gotya of Kelve, on the same day by the Palghar Government Railway Police and the baby was safely reunited with her mother.
“The child was kidnapped while her mother was working near the Boisar railway station premises on Friday noon,” said Senior Inspector Naresh Randhir of the Palghar railway police station.
According to the GRP, Varsha Kanhaiya Damore, a contract labourer (working for a railway contractor), had gone to work on the railway tracks with her husband after her eight-month-old daughter fell asleep at the Boisar railway station (under Palghar GRP jurisdiction) on Friday morning.
“She made a cradle with bedsheets under the foot overbridge and put her sleeping baby into the makeshift arrangement on Friday morning. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the accused snatched the baby from the cradle and fled,” said a police officer.
“Around 11.35am, a co-worker of Varsha noticed that the ‘cradle’ was empty and she immediately informed Varsha, who then embarked on a search of places nearby but without any success. A distraught Varsha burst into tears; in the meanwhile, her co-workers informed the on-duty staff,” the officer added.
Palghar GRP immediately filed a case of abduction of a child. “After we were alerted, all units in the vicinity were asked to keep vigil. We checked CCTV footage as well. A Home Guard jawan who saw a man carrying a baby found something amiss and alerted police, after which the man was held and the child rescued, all within eight hours,” SI Naresh Randhir told The Free Press Journal on Saturday.
Asked about the accused, Gotya, police said, he was unemployed and loitered around stations. Further investigations are on.
