Father of 4 girls kidnaps boy from Kalyan station waiting room, held | Thane News – Times of India

KALYAN: Desperate for a son, a father of four girls allegedly kidnapped a four-year-old boy from the waiting room at Kalyan railway station on Monday morning.

Officials of the railway crime unit at Kalyan zeroed in on the kidnapper, Nashik resident Kachru Waghmare (32), after scanning closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera footage and arrested him when he returned to the station with his family in the evening to board a train to Nashik.
The rescued boy was later reunited with his labourer parents Karan and Shubhangi Gupta. The couple lives on Kalyan station premises with their son Atharva and two-year-old daughter Kirti.

On Monday morning, the Guptas went to the station’s waiting room to wash clothes. The couple stepped out to buy soap after asking Waghmare, who was already in the waiting room with his wife and four daughters, to keep an eye on their two children, said railway police officers.
When the Guptas returned, they were shocked to find Kirti alone in the waiting room – there was no sign of either Atharva or the family. After searching the entire station premises for Atharva, the couple approached the railway police at Kalyan railway station.
Ashad Shaikh, police inspector of Kalyan railway crime unit, said, “When filing the missing person’s complaint, the boy’s father told us that he had overheard the family talking about catching an evening train to Nashik. Based on this information and CCTV grabs of the accused, we laid a trap. We apprehended Waghmare at 8pm when he, along with his wife, four daughters and the boy, arrived at the station to catch the train.”
Police said Waghmare, who works as a labourer in Nashik, was visiting a relative in Kalyan. During interrogation, Waghmare said that when the Guptas left their children in his care, he decided to kidnap the boy as he had four daughters and wanted a son, said an officer. Police said Waghmare convinced his wife to be party to the crime. He took his family and the boy back to his relative’s house, changed the boy’s clothes and returned to Kalyan station in the evening to catch the train back home but was arrested. “We have made Waghmare’s wife a co-accused in the case, but did not arrest her as she has four small children,” said Shaikh.
The Guptas thanked the railway crime branch team for getting their son back safe and sound.