Chennai, September 20 (BPNS)

Police trace down a three-year-old boy of Bihari migrant workers who was kidnapped from Chennai on Saturday. Officers told IANS that after the parents, Mithilesh (26) and Meeradevi( 23) from Bihar, who were both working in a private firm complained that the child was missing, the police team searched the premises at Pattaravakkam where the family was staying.

Neigbhours and locals informed the police that the child was last seen with two migrant labourers, G. Shivkumar Noriya and Manu Kappidas from Madhya Pradesh who were staying a floor above the family of Mithilesh.

The Ambattur East police where Mithilesh had lodged a complaint immediately swung into action and tracked the trains that were moving towards North India.

The Station house officer of the Ambattur East Police station while speaking to BPNS said, “We traced the duo and found that they had reached the Central railway station. There were three Northbound trains at that time on Saturday evening and we traced them to a train bound for Madhya Pradesh. Immediately we informed the Railway Protection Force and caught hold of them at Nagpur railway station on Sunday.”

A team from Ambattur East police station has already left for Nagpur to bring the boy back to Chennai along with the arrested duo. Police said that the culprits had already reached into a deal with a family for a handsome sum for the toddler and added that further investigations are on in the case.

Mithilesh and Meeradevi, according to the SHO said that the duo was known to them for quite some time and that they were friendly with the children also.