Delhi manufacturing worker kidnaps five children and entices them with chips and toffees in order to “sell them.”

NEW DELHI: A guy lured five students, ages four to ten, with packages of toffees and chips to the Narela railway station. Just as they were about to board a train to Uttar Pradesh, they were seen by vigilant police officers.

The abductor abandoned the kids and vanished into the crowd as the cops began questioning them. Another team employed technological analysis to find the kidnapper, while the police made contact with the principal of the school indicated in the children’s books and reunited the kids with their parents.

It transpired that he worked at a Delhi manufacturing plant.
According to KPS Malhotra, DCP (Railways), a police crew at the Narela train station saw a young guy wandering about the station with five youngsters in school bags. The kids conversed with the dubious police officers. When the accused—Setu Verma, a 22-year-old Hardoi, Uttar Pradesh resident—saw this, he ran away from the scene.

“When the stranger offered the kids potato chips and persuaded them to go with him, the kids said they were heading for afternoon tutoring. Malhotra said, “He took the kids to Narela station, implying he was going to take them to his hometown.

From the notebooks the kids were carrying in their school backpacks, the police squad was able to determine the name of the kids’ school. When they got in touch with the principal, she told them that the children lived in Shersah hamlet in Kundli, in the Sonipat region of Haryana. After getting in touch with the parents, the police were able to bring the children home to their relatives, who were desperately looking for them.

Teams were assembled to track the kidnapper after a complaint was filed under Section 363 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which deals with abduction. Verma, who works at a candle factory in Delhi, said during questioning that he abducted the kids in order to “sell them” and earn some cash after his detention.

When the accused was put through a test identification parade as part of the inquiry, the kids recognised Verma as their kidnapper.
The public is being advised by the Railway Police not to accept rides from strangers and never to shortcut via abandoned passageways. Kids have been instructed never to leave the building, playground, schoolyard, or garden without an adult’s consent.