Father arrested for son’s kidnap

The three-year-old boy, Kalpak, was rescued from Malwani

Mateen Hafeez TNN

Mumbai: The city crime branch on Tuesday arrested a 30-year-old man and his first wife for kidnapping the former’s three-year-old son for ransom. The boy was rescued from Malwani nearly two months after hewent missing.

The accused, Naresh Janardhan Ingale,toldthe police thathewantedtoteachhissecondwife, Swati, a lesson.He accused her of “troubling him over domesticissues”.

Ingale, a DTP operator in a software firm, is a resident of of Indira Nagar near Juhu Tara Road, Santa Cruz. His son, Kalpak, went missing on December 25 last year. Ingale went to the Santa Cruz police tolodge a complaint a daylater. The missing person complaint was converted into a kidnapping case after Ingale claimed tohave got a ransom call.

Ingale said the caller, who identified herself as Yashika Singh,toldhim thatshewould give him information about his son, but would have to be paid Rs 5 lakh for that. Since then, Ingale visited the police station every day.

Then, the caller contacted Swati and asked her to cough up Rs 2 lakh. She also warned that Kalpak would be killed if the money was not paid.

The crime branch then began a parallel probe. “We learnt that a young boy had been seen with a Malwani woman. The police raidedthewoman’s house andfoundKalpakthere. Thewoman,identified asNaziya Shaikh aliasNaziya Shahid Khan (25), was arrested,” said Himanshu Roy, crime branch chief.Itwas,however, notclear if she was the same woman
whohadcalledup asYashika.

Naziya said Ingale had broughttheboy toher on December 25.Basedon her statement, Ingalewas arrested;he reportedly confessed to having plotted the kidnapping. “Naziya is Ingale’s first wife. He married her in 2005 as ShahidKhan.Ingale told us that his current wife Swati, whom he married in 2008, would often fight with him. So,hewantedtoteachher alesson,” saidinvestigating officer Sagar Shivalkar.

The Times of India, February 22, 2012