New Delhi

Minor rescued, two held

NEW DELHI: A minor has been rescued by the South Delhi police with the arrest of two members of a gang allegedly involved in auto-theft and shoplifting.

The ten-year-old boy had gone missing from outside his home at Sirsa in Haryana on April 25 this year. His parents got a report registered at a local police station and the information was later passed on to Missing Persons Squads all over the country.

The Special Staff of the South Delhi police found that a gang notorious for kidnapping children and pushing them into shoplifting and auto-theft had probably kidnapped the boy.

A team under the supervision of Assistant Commissioner of Police (Operations) K.S. Bhatnagar found that the gang had been operating from a slum cluster here in Madangir. On Friday, the police team received a tip-off that a gang member, Appa Rao, would come to his house in the slum cluster.

Acting on the tip-off, a joint team of the Delhi and Sirsa police surrounded the house in plain clothes on Saturday morning and two young men -- later identified as Appa Rao (30) and R. Mugam (25) -- were detained along with a boy. The two purportedly confessed to having kidnapped the boy. They also disclosed that they had been kidnapping, training and pushing children into petty crime, the police said.

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