Eight-month-old toddler rescued, four abductors held

The city police on Wednesday rescued an eight- month-old male child and arrested four kidnappers. The toddler was handed over to their parents at Kancharapalem police station.
Joint commissioner of police AS Khan and ACP (North) Bheema Rao, after rescuing the kid who was kidnapped from Kancharapalem, at Visakhapatnam on Wednesday | Express
Joint commissioner of police AS Khan and ACP (North) Bheema Rao, after rescuing the kid who was kidnapped from Kancharapalem, at Visakhapatnam on Wednesday | Express

VISAKHAPATNAM: The city police on Wednesday rescued an eight- month-old male child and arrested four kidnappers. The toddler was handed over to their parents at Kancharapalem police station.
The arrested have been identified as P Bhimshankar, K Sankar, E Vijay Kumar and N Durga Prasad.


According to sources, Natla Srinu, a vendor, was sleeping on the footpath of the Kancharapalem flyover along with his wife and five children. On May 18, around 2 am, his eight-month-old kid N Surya, who was sleeping close to his mother, went missing. After a futile search, he lodged a complaint with the Fifth Town police station the following morning. 


Police said that T Mallesh and his wife Hemalata, native of Gurajala in Guntur district, who run a grocery shop in Kukkatapalle in Hyderabad, told their neighbour Bhimshankar to find a male child in Visakhapatnam for adoption as they failed to get one in Hyderabad.

Bhimshankar, immediately schemed a plan to abduct a child and told his  friend Vasu who in turn sought help of his brother-in-law Kalla Shankar and his friends Eluru Vijay Kumar, the auto-rickshaw driver by profession, and N Durga Prasad.

As per the plan, they kidnapped the child and took him to Vijayawada in a taxi and handed over the baby to Mallesh and Hemlata and collected `1 lakh  from them. When the couple sought a certificate, Bhimshankar told them that it would take two months.


Meanwhile, the police launched a search for the baby and on a tip-off, the acused were trapped all the accused at Convent Junction in the city and arrested them. They recovered ` 58,000 in cash, three mobile phones and seized an auto-rickshaw.

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