Pressure mounts on police as no breakthrough on kid’s abduction

Chennai

The police investigation into the abduction of an eight-month-old baby boy from a pavement near Parrys Corner is heading nowhere. Despite getting visuals, which show vehicles involved in the abduction, and profile of the abductors, the city police have not yet managed to get a lead in the case.

Even as highly placed sources had already told DTNext that the city commissioner of police instructed the Central Crime Branch (CCB) to handle the case, CCB sources on Monday told DTNext that the case has not been handed over to them officially by the Commissionerate.

“The case has not come to us,” a police official attached to the CCB said.  However, CCB had accessed the CCTV footage from the toll booths on both the East Coast Road and from Old Mahabalipuram Road to collect the details of all white Duster cars and two black Audi cars that passed from Chennai to Puducherry on the day of abduction. The police worked on this with a strong suspicion that the kid was taken to Puducherry and sold there.

No breakthrough yet

“As of now, police have not got any clue that can actually take them to the abductors. They are working on various factors but there is no breakthrough yet,” a senior police official said.

The National Human Rights Commission, taking a suo motu case based on a report carried by DTNext regarding the increase in child missing cases in Tamil Nadu, has sought a detailed report from the government in its letter to the Tamil Nadu chief secretary and to the DGP and has given them four months to furnish the report.

“With the NHRC notice, things have become more serious. Otherwise, the issue would have gone to the back burner with the happening of some other major affairs now. It is a fact that the child missing cases are never investigated seriously in the state,” the official added.