Man Abandons Lover’s 4-Year-Old Son on Train, Cooks Up Kidnap Story: Arrested in Nagpur, India

NAGPUR – Feeling that his lover’s four-year-old son was an obstacle in their relationship, a 25-year-old man abandoned the minor in a train and cooked up a story that he had been kidnapped by his biological father. Police investigation after a complaint by the mother unravelled the story, while the boy was found crying by train passengers at Wardha railway station, and handed over to the cops there, who reunited him with his mother. Ganeshpeth police have registered a case of kidnapping and misleading investigations against the accused Hansraj Dakhne. Police said a 30-year-old married woman was having regular fights with her husband, so she started living separately with her four-year-old son for the last few months. Around a month ago, she started living on rent in a lodge with her son, and used to do cleaning work at a hostel. During that period, she met Dakhne, who also worked at the same place. Soon, their friendship turned into a love affair, and they started living together. Dakhne even asked the woman to marry him. The woman asked Dakhne to accept her son as well. However, Dakhne did not want the child. On June 21, Dakhne told his lover that he would take the boy and get him admitted to a school. The woman believed Dakhne and sent her son with him. When she returned home at night, her son was missing while Dakhne was sleeping. The woman asked Dakhne about her child, and he told her that they were standing at a bus stop when three persons approached them and kidnapped the child. Dakhne also said that the boy called one of the kidnappers ‘papa’. So, the woman called her estranged husband, who told her to immediately approach the police station. The woman went to Ganeshpeth police station and narrated the whole story. Cops questioned the woman’s husband and realized Hansraj Dakhne was somehow involved in the case. Cops questioned Dakhne, who broke down and told the police that he had left the kid on a train as he did not want him. The cops also shared the picture of the boy to nearby districts. Cops said Dakhne had left the kid on a train to Wardha. The boy was found crying by passengers, who handed him over to GRP at Wardha station. The boy was kept in a children’s home. Meanwhile, we had also launched a search for him and even checked CCTV footage. We received information from Wardha GRP that they had found the child. We soon sent a team to Wardha and brought the boy, said senior PI of Ganeshpeth police station Macchindra Pandit. Police registered a case in the matter and arrested Dakhne. He was produced before the court and sent to judicial custody.