Belthangady: The Police successfully tracked down the eight-year-old Anubhav, the son of businessman Bijoy, at Kolar on Saturday. A total of seven people have been arrested in connection with the abduction case, police said.

The kidnappers were spotted by a special team of police with a child around 5 am on Saturday morning near the Masti police station’s jurisdiction in the Kolar district. The accused who is also scheduled to be produced before the Belthangady court is reportedly being transported from Kolar at present.

The accused had hidden the child in the house of a man named Manjunath at Koorna Hosahalli in Malur Taluk in Kolar. The kidnappers are reported to have used the mobile phone of this individual to make the ransom call, due to which the police were able to track him down and subsequently take him into custody. The police traced the kidnappers through this man. It is learned that the Mangaluru Police Team are conducting the arrest operation with the cooperation from the Kolar SP Karthik.

Preliminary reports suggest four kidnappers, including Electronic City's Komal and Mandya’s Gangadhar, may release more information after the police investigate the accused further.

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Hyderabad (PTI): The Telangana Commission for Backward Classes on Monday sought reports from state government officials on the death of an infant following alleged assault and caste abuse against her family members in Nagarkurnool district while visiting a temple fair.

In separate letters, Commission Chairman G Niranjan urged Endowments Department Commissioner S Harish and Nagarkurnool district Collector Badavath Santhosh to furnish the reports within three days.

Niranjan drew the officials' attention to media reports on the death of the two-month-old baby at Kummera village in the district and alleged caste discrimination and denial of entry to the temple fair to the baby's family belonging to a BC community.

BJP OBC Morcha's state unit president G Anand Goud alleged inadequate response by the police in the incident and demanded a transparent investigation into the incident.

Alleging that the deceased baby's father was attacked in the incident, he also demanded action against the attackers.

Goud told reporters that BJP's state unit president N Ramachander Rao would visit the village on February 24 and meet the baby's family members.

Meanwhile, a BRS delegation met DGP B Shivadhar Reddy and demanded a comprehensive inquiry into the incident.

The BRS leaders sought action against a person who allegedly attacked the infant's parents.

BC associations have held protests over the past few days regarding the alleged caste discrimination against the deceased infant's family members.

Police said on Sunday that four persons were arrested in connection with the cases registered after the family alleged that the baby died following an "assault" by a group of villagers. The family also alleged that they were abused in the name of caste in the incident on February 18.

However, a villager, part of the group, lodged a counter-complaint with the police the same day, alleging that he was attacked with stones during a scuffle with the family, sustaining a head injury, following which a case was registered.

The infant died on February 21 and her mother, who belongs to an SC community, also lodged a complaint alleging her daughter died due to the physical assault on the family by some villagers, police said.