However, sustained efforts by police bore fruit when the boy was rescued from Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly area almost 20 days after his kidnapping on June 5, police said today.
The accused, Manjeet Chauhan, a water tanker driver who had kidnapped the boy on June 5 was arrested on Tuesday. His friend Raju, with whom he was planning to sell the boy has also been arrested.
He called Arti and introduced himself as a friend of Amit, a relative of her who earlier had the phone and started talking to her.
"He developed friendship with Arti and induced her to come to Delhi. On June 5 when she boarded a train from Darbhanga to Delhi and reached New Delhi Railway Station, he took her child and disappeared," a police official said.
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He reached Maidangarhi village Delhi where his friend Raju was also working as a water tanker driver. Raju agreed to help him in selling the child and both left Delhi and visited many places but they could not sell the child.
When the couple said that they can't give the money as they are labourers and the accused were unable to sell the child, they left the boy with a woman at a bus stand in Moradabad area, asking her to keep an eye on him and fled.
"When they did not return, the woman reported the matter to Muradabad Kotwali and the boy was rescued," the official said.