Excerpt from Hindustan Times, reported by HT Correspondent on November 18, 2010: Read Full Article

A team of six women police officers and home guard has been formed to talk to every woman in Govandi to find out leads on the kidnapper of the two-month-old Shahid Ansari. On Monday, Shahid was abducted by a burqa-clad woman from the health centre at Shivaji Nagar, Govandi, when his mother was standing in the queue to buy medicines.

The accused gave a 10-rupee note to the baby’s elder brother Mohammed, 8, asked him to go and get her a paan and fled with the baby.
On Wednesday, Rajneesh Seth, joint commissioner of police (law and order) visited Shahid’s parents and instructed the police to form a special squad to investigate the case.

PTI : Police have launched an intensive hunt for an unidentified burqa-clad woman, who allegedly stole an infant from a civic body”s health care unit here, but lack of proper description about the accused is proving to be a hurdle in the search.
Two-month-old Shahid was taken to a health unit at Shivaji Nagar in Govandi by his mother Munni Khatun Ansari (28) yesterday for a check-up as her infant son was suffering from fever. She was accompanied by her eight-year-old son Mohammed Tahir, police said.
After the check-up, Munni went to the counter to buy medicine, leaving the infant with her elder son. A burqa-clad woman struck a conversation with Mohammed and asked him to buy a ”paan” for her giving him Rs 10, they said.
Mohammed handed over the infant to the lady and went to bring the ”paan”. But when he returned, the woman and his infant brother were missing, police said.
Munni was immediately informed by Mohammed, following which she lodged a complaint with the local police.
“A kidnapping case was registered against the unknown burqa-clad woman. We are looking for the accused and the baby boy at various railway stations and bus depots,” D Jodgujari, Senior Inspector, Shivajinagar police station told PTI today.
Munni had saved her son”s photograph in the mobile, which has been circulated among the cops at the police station but they have no proper description of the accused woman as she wore a burqa and there were no CCTVs, said another police officer, requesting anonymity. .

Excerpt from Hindustan Times, reported by HT Correspondent on October 29, 2010: Read Full Article

Two people were arrested on Wednesday for kidnapping and beating up a dumper truck driver and then stealing the vehicle. The accused, Gajjanan Ghadge, 24, and Pradeep Panda, 22, had allegedly beaten up the driver Deepchand Patel, 20. and threatened him with dire consequences if he shouted for help on Tuesday. Senior inspector of Chembur police station, B Rathod said, “The incident took place around 2am on Tuesday night near the Bhakti Bhavan colony area of Chembur.

Excerpt from DNA by Divyesh Singh on , January 11, 2010: Read Full Article
Chembur police have arrested five persons in connection with the abduction and wrongful confinement of a 30-year-old man.

Manoj Jaiswal, a professional driver, was allegedly kidnapped by the accused and confined in a ration shop in Mankhud for two days.

According to Chembur police, the accused had hired Jaiswal last month to go to Baroda for a jewellery deal. They had allegedly smuggled in the gold and silver jewellery. However, at Baroda, the five were robbed of their valuables by some unidentified people.

But they suspected that the robbery was planned by Jaiswal.

As reported in TOI by Vijay Singh , on 27 August 2009

Two doctors, representing an insurance firm, were kidnapped from a Sanpada nursing home where they had gone to verify a medical claim put forth by the hospital management.

On receiving a complaint by ICICI Lombard, the Turbhe police swung into action and rescued Dr Vinod Singh and Dr Ramesh Singh from a Govandi hospital on Tuesday evening. Three persons, including a doctor at Sharda Nursing Home in Sanpada, have been arrested.

Inspector (crime) M M Patil said another employee of ICICI Lombard received a threat call from one of the accused, claiming that they were “dangerous people” and they would “harm the doctors if their medical insurance bill was not cleared immediately”. The nursing home had submitted bills of one of their patients, Suresh Dube, to ICICI Lombard at their Malad office. However, as the company found loopholes in the documents submitted by the nursing home, they sent the doctors to the hospital for verification.

“Dr Santosh Tiwari, in charge of the hospital, kidnapped the two doctors with the help of his associates, Satyendra Tiwari and Sanjay Soni,” Patil said.

When the police raided the nursing home at Sanpada, they learnt that the kidnapped doctors had been taken to another hospital in Govandi (E). A police team was then sent there and the doctors rescued. “We are investigating if Tiwari has a genuine MBBS degree and the if there is a racket concerning medical insurance claims,” Patil said. Turbhe police officials are on the lookout for two more accused in the case

On Wednesday, the division bench of Justice Ranjana Desai and Justice Rajesh Ketkar said there needs to be a strategy to deal with the ever increasing number of cases of missing children. The Bombay high court is planning to conduct a special hearing in this matter. The judges directed the court staff to club all cases that relate to missing children and place them for hearing on May 4.

Chembur couple Mohan and Mohini Nerurkar whose new-born son was kidnapped from the maternity ward of Sion hospital in January this year had filed a petition a before the court. While the BMC has deposited Rs 5 lakh towards compensation for the couple, the court has also formed a committee to frame guidelines for increased security at the hospitals.

As reported in TOI 30th April by Shibu Thomas … HC plans hearing for missing kids

Mohan and Mohini Nerurkar had their three-day-old baby boy allegedly stolen from Sion Hospital a a few days back. The Chembur couple has taken an emotional beating ever since, but is still hopeful that they will be able to hold their baby in their arms again.

The couple, who has seen one baby found by the Chembur police in February last week, claimed that it was not theirs. But it has been over two months since they saw their child last and identifying it may not be easy.

“I will surely be able to identify my son. He would open his eyes at the sound of my voice. He could recognise my voice,” Mohan Nerurkar said. “We had not even decided on his name and were referring to him with different nicknames. We did not even take a picture of him,” said an aggrieved Nerurkar.

Mohini, who breaks into tears when asked about her child, says that she can never forget the face of her son. “I saw the baby that the Chembur police had found but it was not my son, he was much fairer than that child,” she said.

Mohan’s brother-in-law AD Salunke, who accompanies him to every court hearing said, “The child must be looking much different since the time it was born. It is going to be difficult for the parents to recognise him at a glance.”

Although the police will conduct DNA tests and verify the blood samples of the child and the parents, the question remains that would the couple identify the child if they spotted it with someone on the road?

“He had tiny strands of hair on his neck and his back. Both my daughters had those when they were born. That’s how we will be able to identify him,” Mohan said. Salunke said that the child resembled his mother more than his father.

“Such small children get attached to people out of habit. Since the baby has been away from the parents for so long, he may not even respond to their call or their touch now,” added Salunke.

As Reported in DNA on 9th March 2009

The Bombay Municipal Corporation (BMC) has invited wrath of various social groups for its behavior in the Sion hospital baby kidnap case. Initially BMC said that it would pay 5 lakh compensation to Chembur residents Mohan and Mohini Nerurkar, whose three-day-old baby was kidnapped from the Sion Hospital on January 1. But on Friday, it told the court that it would pay no compensation to the couple at this stage.

Mihir Desai of India Centre for Human Rights and Law said: “The incident shows that the BMC is completely brazen. There is no ambiguity about the fact that the child went missing and that the incident occurred within the hospital premises.”

The BMC also said that it had no intention to suspend the two security officers, who had been held responsible for the incident, till the departmental inquiry was complete.

Health activist Arokya Mary informed that the case highlighted the need for accountability in public hospitals. It’s not the first time babies have gone missing. The administrators keep giving excuses, but there is no mechanism to get to the root cause.