Kidnapped baby boy of visually impaired beggar rescued, 1 arrested

THE Odisha Police on Tuesday rescued the kidnapped — one-and-half-year-old boy of a visually impaired beggar in Bhubaneswar and arrested one person in this regard, an officer said.

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The baby boy was handed over to the mother after medical examination at the Capital Hospital here, Commissioner of Police S Dev Datta Singh told reporters.

The baby was kidnapped early on Sunday by an unidentified man when he was playing and his mother and sister were sleeping on the footpath.

Singh said that one person, identified as 27-year-old Kedarsan Panda of Gangadharpur area in Puri district, has been arrested and one woman, from whom the child was rescued in Balasore district, has been detained.

"Raids were conducted and the child was rescued from Khantapada police station area in Balasore district," the CP said, adding that Panda kidnapped the boy and took him to Bhubaneswar railway station, from where he took the child to Balasore by train.

According to their plan, the woman, identified as Jhelam Rani Panda, received the child at Balasore railway station.