The police arrested a woman on Monday for kidnapping a teenaged boy, whom she treated as a sex slave. He was rescued after 40 days of the ordeal, during which he managed to convince her to return to Mumbai, where the police were looking for her. The 38-year-old woman, a neighbour, had lured him on the pretext of going on a picnic. She then took him to Delhi, Vadodara and Navsari.

The father of the 16-year-old boy had filed a missing person complaint with the Nehru Nagar police station on July 2. As the boy was a minor, the charge of kidnapping was added to the FIR. The police felt he could be with Saira Bano, whose husband had filed a missing person complaint about her at the same police station. They stay in the same locality in Kurla. Saira has four kids.