Rajkot: A 18-month-old girl who was kidnapped from the Nagpur train station last month was saved because of the alertness of the shop owner at Somnath Beach in the Somnath Gir District.
The toddler was kidnapped so he could be made to beg.
On November 13, a man named Suraj Khiradkar was questioned by the shop owner when they saw him beat the girl on the beach.
The shop owners tried to intervene, but the man told them that he was his father and asked them to leave.
However, the shop owner was not sure so they told the police at the Prabhas Patan police station.
The police took Khiradkar for questioning and recognizing the girl to the hospital when she was injured.
Khiradkar gave their identity police and said that he came from Amravati in Maharashtra and the girl was her daughter.
When police found a suspicious Khiradkar response, they contacted his parents back with Amravati.
The police asked Kiradkar’s parents about their grandchildren, but they said that they did not have grandchildren when Khiradkar was not married.
When Khiradkar realized that he had been exposed, he admitted on Tuesday that he had kidnapped the girl from the Nagpur train station on October 22 to use it to look for alms.
The police then contacted their colleagues in Nagpur to ask if they had received complaints about a missing girl.
Then it was revealed that the girl approached the police after a lost toddler.
The girl came to Nagpur at her parents’ house from Allahabad together with him.
Police Nagpur and members of the girl family were asked to reach Somnath to take custody of the toddler and also Khiradkar.
“The defendant will be handed over to the Nagpur police when the crime occurs there and all legal proceedings will also be carried out there,” said Inspector N MHIR from the Prabhas Patan police station.