Ten-month-old abducted from train rescued in Uttar pradesh, 3 arrested

A ten-month-old boy abducted from a moving train after his mother was drugged has been rescued following a joint operation by the Government Railway Police (GRP) across Uttar Pradesh, police said on Thursday.

The incident occurred on the Delhi-Howrah rail route between Etawah and Kanpur when a woman, Munni Ansari, was travelling in the general coach of the Kanan Express from Aligarh to Koderma in Jharkhand with her son.

Police said a youth who boarded the train at Aligarh, befriended the woman and later fed her a sweet laced with intoxicants.

According to the complaint, the woman lost consciousness around 1 am on the intervening night of January 14 and 15. 

After the train crossed Kanpur, the accused allegedly got down at Fatehpur railway station with the infant and fled. When the woman regained consciousness near Mirzapur station, she found her child missing and reported the matter to the Mirzapur GRP.

Senior Superintendent of Police, GRP Agra



zone, Anil Kumar Jha said since the crime took place between Etawah and Kanpur, the Mirzapur GRP registered a zero FIR and transferred the case to the Etawah GRP on January 16 for investigation.

Etawah GRP station in-charge Jitendra Singh said the case was treated as highly sensitive and senior officers were informed immediately. A joint investigation involving GRP units of Aligarh, Kanpur, Mirzapur and Fatehpur was launched.

Police examined CCTV footage from stations where the Kanan Express had stoppages. At Fatehpur station, cameras captured a youth matching the description provided by the woman wearing a green sweater getting off the train and later heading towards the roadways bus stand. He was then traced through CCTV footage at Aligarh railway station’s ticket counter, where he was seen purchasing a ticket using UPI payment.

Based on this lead, police arrested Sonu, a resident of Bulandshahr. During interrogation, he confessed to abducting the child and selling him for Rs 3.5 lakh, police said.