The kidnapping case of a two-year-old boy from Thakurpada in Thane has led the Shildaighar police to a suspected child-trafficking racket. Interrogation of the four accused arrested in the case has revealed that they kidnapped seven to eight children in the past. Though they tried to mislead the cops by saying that they had killed the children and buried their bodies at a spot between Shildaighar and Mahape areas, the cops realised that it was a lie when they failed to recover anything from the site.

According to the police, the main accused – 20-year-old Afreen Munna Khan – who fled with the boy on March 31, initially went to the Mumbra railway station. The child was her neighbour's son.