A 10-year-old boy from Thane's Wagle Estate was kidnapped by a TV repairman from the same area, who demanded a ransom of R3 lakh. The Shrinagar and Wagle Estate police, however, cracked the case within three days and arrested the kidnapper before safely handing over the boy to his parents. The boy was found from an isolated house in Bhiwandi.

On January 13, the Shrinagar police received a missing person report of Krish Jaiswal. When Krish did not return from school, his father, Yogendra Kumar Jaiswal, who owns a small shop and also works as a passport agent, started searching for him everywhere. When he could not find him, he registered a complaint at the police station. A police team, too, started their search but could not find any CCTV footage about the boy.