Two transgenders were arrested for allegedly trying to kidnap a toddler from a popular shopping mall in west Delhi's Subhash nagar area, police said today.
The incident took place last evening when Sharon Malhotra, a resident of west Delhi's Janakpuri, along with her children -- five-year-old daughter and four-month-old son -- and other relatives had gone to celebrate her mother's birthday at Pacific mall.
The family was at the children's section of the mall and Sharon was busy at a counter when the transgender duo allegedly whisked away her toddler son who was seated in a pram just behind her.
It was the domestic help of the Malhotras who spotted the baby being taken away and raised an alarm. The duo were held by security officials of the mall and later handed over to the police.
A video clip in which one of the transgender can be seen walking with the pram, with the child seated in it surfaced today and it was broadcast on news channels.
"A case under relevant sections of IPC has been registered in Tilak Nagar Police Station and the accused has been arrested," DCP (West) Pushpendra Kumar said.
Records were checked but the accused were found to have no crime record in past.The duo were residents of a colony in west Delhi's Hari Nagar and involvement with any trafficking racket has not been found, a senior official said.
They were granted bail under legal provisions but investigation of the matter is underway, he added.
