Kidnapped and rescued in 10 hrs

Maid runs away with employer's 3-year-old son, held

Kidnapped and rescued in 10 hrs

Maid runs away with employer's 3-year-old son, held

She had kidnapped a three-year-old son of her businessman employer in a hope to demand huge ransom. But she ran out of luck and a signature that she had scribble on an address note led police to her with 10 hours of her committing the crime.

Back home: Three-year-old Zaid Khan with his father Farid, at police
headquarters in New Delhi on Monday. Pic/Subhash Barolia

The police said thatu00a0 the accused Rizwana Khatoon, had been working as a maid at the house of a businessman Farid Khan, who deals in sale and purchase of trucks, for a month. On Sunday, Farid approached the police at around 9.30 pm and reported that he feared that his three-year-old son was kidnapped. He told the police his maid Rizwana was also missing and he suspected that she might have kidnapped his son was for ransom.

On hearing the name Rizwana, Sub Inspector Shahi, posted at the police station, decided to check the records as he had earlier rescued a girl named Rizwana from kidnappers.u00a0"About four months back, Rizwana'su00a0 mother had lodged an FIR with Adarsh Nagar police station that her daughter (Rizwana) was missing. Shahi was the investigation officer of the case and had rescued her.

So when the name Rizwana came up in this kidnapping case, a police team immediately contacted her (the one whose record was with police) family and taking the girl's photograph from them, showed it to Farid who immediately identified her. Following a tip-off, a raid was the conducted at a house in Mukundpur. Au00a0diary was recovered from there in which Rizwana had written an address and had even signed beneath it. The police compared the signature with their records and found it was matching, thereby confirming that she was behind the incident," said Joint Commissioner of police, Sudhir Yadav.u00a0u00a0

Six teams were formed and more raids were conducted at different places . At around 5 am on Monday, the police arrested the accused from Adarsh Nagar Metro Station and rescued the child who was with her at that time. The police said that Rizwana had planned to kidnap the boy after she had come to know that Khan had made huge money in a truck deal. "Rizwana's accomplices are still absconding," said the police source.

Alarming
According to police records, on an average five children have gone missing on every day of 2011 so far. Figures with Delhi Police show 120 children have disappeared across the city in the first 22 days of the year, most of them aged between four and 16 years. Delhi Police maintains there is no organised gang trafficking children but voluntary groups say children are abducted from Delhi to be forced into begging, prostitution, bonded labour and illegal adoption.

Police files
MiD DAY had reported earlier how Delhi police had rescued a businessman's son after he was kidnapped by his maid. A recharge coupon of a cellphone acted as the all important piece of evidence that led the police to the kidnappers of one-and-a-half-year old Ishaan, who was abducted on April 24. The boy was rescued within 72 hours of the incident from the Faridabad area. Five people were arrested, including the maid Seema.