A 50-year-old man was arrested by officers of the Nagpada police on Saturday and charged with kidnapping a three-year-old girl from Bellasis road in Nagpada. The cops say Mohammad Umar Mohammad Kallu kidnapped the girl and was taking her toGujarat to sell her to the highest bidder, when he was intercepted by the Gujarat railway police force at Valsad Railway station.

Kallu was brought back to Mumbai and arrested by the city cops on Saturday. He has now been sent to police custody.According to the police, the girl resides with her mother on a roadside hut on Bellasis Road in Nagpada. Apparently the mother, having experienced similar attempts on her daughter earlier, would tie a rope on the child’s hand and hold the other end before going to sleep every night.