Three days after a 10-month-old boy went missing from the Mahim Causeway area, where his family resides, the Bandra Police rescued the toddler from Telangana and arrested four people for kidnapping and selling off the baby. Police said that the woman who lifted the baby while his mother was sleeping, had befriended her and was providing food to the family for the past couple of days. She sold the baby to a Telangana-based man via three others for Rs 3.5 lakh.

The baby has been identified as Kaif, and he was residing with his mother Mumtaz Shaikh, 40, at Mahim Causeway. His father Naresh Choudhary works as a labourer at a Kalina-based construction site and resides there. They were earlier living at a rented accommodation in Nalasopara, but after Naresh lost his job, they started staying on the footpath and begging in the Bandra and Mahim areas. The child lifter has been identified as Farhana Kurban Shaikh, 33, resident of Bandra West.