MUMBAI: Thanks to a trained police sniffer dog, a kidnapped six-year-old boy was rescued within three-and-a-half hours of his parents approaching the Powai police for help on Thursday midnight.
The kidnapper left the boy, Vivek Kori, around 500 metres from his house at Ashok Nagar slum in Andheri (East) on noticing stray dogs barking incessantly because of Leo the Doberman sniffer dog who was tasked to find the child and managed to track him down within 90 minutes of being pressed into service.The Powai police who registered a case of kidnap against an unknown person said the boy was found in an open ground in the neighbourhood.
The boy was abducted around 8pm when he was playing outside his hutment.
His parents and 11-year-old sister started looking for him when he did not return home for dinner.
There were no CCTV cameras in the slum pocket, so we decided to take the help of the Bomb Disposal and Detection Squads (BDDS) sniffer dog.
The canine led us to the boy who was found petrified and unable to narrate anything, said a police officer of the Powai police station.Taking a serious note of the incident, DCP (Zone X) Datta Nalawade formed multiple teams comprising ACP Bharat Suryavanshi, inspector Supriya Patil, inspector Vijay Dalvi, assistant inspector Vinod Lad, sub-inspector Nitin Gaikwad and staff.
While one team stayed with the boys sister, one was deployed to search for the boy.
The victims parents approached police around 12.30am on Friday, to file a missing complaint.
We took the sisters help to retrace the childs steps.
She told us he had changed clothes just before leaving home.
We immediately decided to take the service of a trained police dog.
Leo was pressed into service and tracked down the child from the smell of his T-shirt, said the officer, adding that Leo managed to track down the boy within 90 minutes despite facing problems from local strays.
The child was unable to reveal much due to a speech impediment.
He just said he was taken away by an uncle, said the officer.
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