Infant kidnapped by persistent suitor, rescued within hours
New Delhi, June 17 (IANS): A four-year-old boy was kidnapped by a man, who was persistently after his mother to marry him, in a bid to mount more pressure on her but the child was safely rescued within hours, police said on Sunday.
According to police, the woman lives separated from her husband.
Accused, Shiv Kumar, a labourer working in Kolkata, went to her house in Madhu Vihar area of east Delhi to wish Eid to the family, and ran away with the child to board a train to Kolkata, said Deputy Commissioner of Police, East, Pankaj Kumar Singh. However, police, who were alerted, traced and arrested Shiv Kumar from Connaught Place here and rescued the baby, within six hours, the officer said.
The accused told police that he wanted to marry the child’s mother, who was not agreeing to it. “Therefore to mount pressure, he kidnapped her child,” the DCP added.
Posters, online campaigns for missing Kolkata cat
Kolkata, June 17 (IANS): Consumed by the pain of losing his cat, a college professor has put up hundreds of posters across south Kolkata streets and started social media campaigns in the hope of getting his pet back. Kallol Roy, a professor of English language in a Kolkata college, has not been able to find his 10-year-old cat ‘Bombom’ since June 2.
He has taken up unique ways to find the feline like putting up pictorial posters across Ballygunge area, describing the pet as a “10-year-old pampered child” who has gone missing.
The professor has distributed fliers with the newspapers in the neighbourhood urging people to immediately inform him if they locate Bombom and also offered prize money.
“Our lives revolve around Bombom. My mother has fallen sick since he has gone missing. I have also been upset and have lost interest in work,” said Roy, a Ballygunge Phari resident.
Roy said his cat can be identified by its spotted face and dark eyes. He said he is banking on the locals’ initiative to locate the animal as the social media campaign #Bombomgonemissing has been poured with comments and responses by the netizens. “I will lodge a police complaint if required,” he said.
Dragged by car, Bhopal police officer critical
Bhopal, June 17 (IANS): An Assistant Sub-inspector (ASI) of Madhya Pradesh Police was in critical condition here on Sunday after a car hit him and dragged him for 500 metres, police said.
The incident took place on Saturday night when Amrit Lal Bhilala, who was on checking duty in Nishatpura area, tried to stop the speeding car, according to police.
Instead of stopping the car, the driver hit Bhilala who fell on the ground. The driver then tried to run over him but the officer held on to a part of the vehicle following which he was dragged for half a kilometre.
Bhilala has been admitted to a hospital. Police said the vehicle has not been identified.
Five people were injured today when the gunpowder they were filling in a cannon during a religious ceremony in Rajasthan’s Bharatpur district exploded, a police official said.
Four of the injured were critical and rushed to a Jaipur hospital, the official said. The incident happened in a village in Bayana town. The gunpowder caught fire and exploded, he said.
