Police trace 26-year-old accused within 6 hours
The Uran police on Monday arrested a 26-year-old childless woman for allegedly kidnapping a three-month-old boy.
The woman, who hails from Jalna and resides at Jasai in Uran with her husband, used to frequently go to Navghar where she holds a bank account.
During her visits, she had noticed a house which had an infant.
Around 11 a.m. on Monday, she approached the mother of the boy and said that she was from anganwadi and enquired if the baby had taken the polio dose.
“The woman told the mother to get her three-year-old daughter ready while she would look after the boy. After the mother went inside, the accused fled with the boy,” senior police inspector Ravindra Budhwant from Uran police station said.
Navi Mumbai: Man held with illegal firearms in Khanda Colony
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Navi Mumbai crime branch arrested a 36-year-old man in Khanda Colony early this week for allegedly carrying firearms.
The man is a habitual offender and he was carrying the firearm illegally from Sanpada to Khanda Colony when he was caught by the police.
The police recovered an unlicensed revolver, a country-made pistol and two live cartridges from his possession.
Giridhar Gore, senior inspector of the crime branch (unit 2) said, âActing on a tip-off, we laid a trap near the bus stop at Asudgaon and arrested the accused. He had come there to sell the firearms to someone from that area, but the other person did not reach there on time. So the accused was about the leave that place in an auto when we accosted him.â
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