Child kidnapping racket busted in Hyderabad, six children rescued
Hyderabad(PTI): Four members of a gang allegedly involved in kidnapping children were arrested here, and six "abducted" children were rescued, police said on Monday.
The gang committed the offences over the past five years in Hyderabad and Sangareddy district, a release from Cyberabad Police Commissionerate said.
Acting on a complaint that a four-year-old son went missing from his hut in Lingampally on August 26 while his mother had gone to the hospital, a case was registered, and special teams were formed to investigate.
During inquiry, the prime accused, an Ayurvedic Practitioner who runs an Ayurvedic store, was apprehended. He, along with three others, was found involved in the kidnappings, the police said adding the missing boy was rescued.
The accused targeted children up to five years old in and around railway stations and isolated places. After monitoring their movements for a few days, the gang kidnapped the children and sold them to childless couples through associates for money.
During the investigation, it was also revealed that one parent had sold his two infants, aged three days and one day, to needy couples through the gang members, they said.
Police traced six children in the age group of one to five (including the complainant's son) and rescued them. The children were handed over to the District Child Protection Officer for safe custody and further procedures, the release added.
The police recovered Rs five lakhs from the accused.
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'Rear-guard action': BJP over Mamata accepting sports minister's resignation after Messi event
New Delhi (PTI): The BJP on Tuesday alleged that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's accepting Aroop Biswas' resignation as the state sports minister is nothing but a "rear-guard action" to douse public anger over the mismanagement of football icon Lionel Messi's event last week.
BJP co-in-charge for West Bengal Amit Malviya alleged that this is also an "open confession" that the Messi event fiasco was not accidental but a government-manufactured disaster, borne out of the poor governance of Banerjee, her ministers and the state bureaucracy.
Banerjee on Tuesday accepted Biswas' resignation as the sports minister in the wake of the controversy over the mismanagement of football icon Messi's event last week, a senior leader of the ruling TMC said.
Biswas, who had written to the chief minister seeking to be relieved of his responsibilities as sports minister, will continue as a cabinet minister, retaining charge of the power department.
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Reacting to the development, Malviya said in a post on X, "TMC Sports Minister Aroop Biswas resigns after the Messi fiasco and Mamata Banerjee accepts it in record time."
"Do not mistake this for accountability; this is nothing but a rear-guard action to douse public anger. anger! This is not 'Raj Dharma'," he added.
The BJP leader alleged that the incident was the outcome of "loot" of common people which is "so synonymous" with the TMC.
The incident was also the outcome of the "shameless VIP culture that TMC thrives on and deep-rooted cronyism promoted by Banerjee," he charged.
Malviya further alleged that Biswas' resignation exposes a "collective failure of Mamata Banerjee, her partisan bureaucracy, and her crony cabinet".
"This is a symbolic sacrifice, a political hoax, soon to be buried under layers of bureaucracy, with no justice, no accountability, and no remorse," the BJP leader said, adding, "No resignation will bring back the time lost, the money wasted, or the stolen chance for football lovers to witness Messi in Kolkata."
