Woman among 7 booked for kidnapping 9-year-old son

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Hoshiarpur, December 10

The police have booked seven persons, including the mother, on the charge of kidnapping 9-year-old Balnoor Singh (pic) from his home in Behbowal Chhanniya village.

Balnoor’s uncle Sukhjinder Singh told the police that on Friday, five men posing as cops visited the house of Amrit Pal Singh, father of Balnoor Singh, at 1pm. Only Balnoor and his grandmother were present in the house. The kidnappers, who were wearing turbans, told Balnoor’s grandmother that they have come to inquire about the case going on between Amrit Pal Singh and his wife Gurmeet Kaur. They were wearing khaki turbans but they were not in police uniform. Before she could understand anything, they forcibly put the boy in the car and escaped from there.

After the news of the kidnapping, Amritpal Singh, immediately informed the police. DSP Dasuya Ranjit Singh Badhesha and station in-charge Dasuya Gurpreet Singh, along with a police team, reached the spot. The DSP formed various police teams on the spot and started the search for the kidnapped boy. Later in the evening, DSP Badhesha told The Tribune that during the preliminary investigation it has been revealed that the kidnapping was planned by boy’s mother, Gurmeet Kaur, in connivance with her friend, Ranveer Singh, and five other unidentified accused. The accused woman is a clerk in the tehsil office in Mukerian and is having a dispute with her husband. She was living separately there in a quarter in Mukerian. Police parties have raided there and her relatives’ houses but she was not found. “Meanwhile, a case has been booked under relevant sections of the IPC against seven persons, including the accused mother, her friend and five unidentified persons. The search for the kidnapped boy and the kidnappers is on. We have got some clues and the accused will be apprehended soon.”