Mumbai: 5 kidnap girl (2) to sell, CCTV cams help catch them | Mumbai News – Times of India

MUMBAI: Kurar police have arrested five men from Mumbai and a child trafficking agent from Nashik for the abduction of a two-year-old daughter of toy-sellers from a Malad pavement last month. The child was rescued from Dadar station the same day.
The five men had allegedly planned to sell the child for Rs 2 lakh to the agent, Samadhan Jagtap, but he rejected her, saying she was not “young enough” for a childless couple he had in mind.
Police are ascertaining if Jagtap was involved in trafficking children in the past, particularly his links to a cartel in Hyderabad that has been found to have sold children from across the country.
The two-year-old girl’s family had migrated to the city during Ganeshotsav. Around 3am on September 26, the girl was asleep with her parents and siblings on a Malad pavement when the five men abducted her. They took her to Malwani, where four of the five alleged kidnappers reside, and then to Nashik in a taxi. Looking to sell her, the five men sent her photographs to Jagtap over WhatsApp. But Jagtap said he was looking for someone under the age of six months.
Meanwhile, the girl’s parents contacted Kurar police and 10 teams were formed to trace her. Police had no recent photograph of the child and had only a one-year-old image from her Aadhaar card. Under the supervision of assistant commissioner of police Nitin Alaknure, the police teams combed railway termini and bus stations.
After Jagtap rejected the child, the five men brought her back to Mumbai on a train and abandoned her at Dadar station on September 26 itself. She was found by the GRP and later handed over to her parents.
One of the alleged kidnappers was caught on CCTV cameras, and a team, including SI Santosh Kharade, was able to track down all five of them-Irfan Khan, Salauddin Sayyed, Aadil Shaikh, Taufir Sayyed and Raza Shaikh -within 48 hours.
DCP Smita Patil said this is the first FIR against the five men for kidnapping a child from Mumbai. Two of them were previously booked for robbery and assault cases. Through leads obtained from the five men, Jagtap was nabbed on October 1.
In a separate case at Trombay, police had earlier arrested six women for allegedly selling newborns to childless couples. Police plan to invoke the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act against these women. One of the accused, Julia Fernandes, has allegedly been involved in six similar cases. Another accused, Sairabano Shaikh, was a quack who was practising at Rahimani Hospital in Govandi. She was a school dropout.