Mumbai, August 8: A 32-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping a 4-year-old boy at Maharashtra's Kalyan station and trying to take him to Jalna, an official said on Tuesday. Nashik resident Kachru Waghmare, alias Bala, allegedly committed the crime on Monday morning when the child was playing outside the waiting area at the station, on the outskirts of Mumbai.

The official said Waghmare left the station premises with the child. He went around Kalyan city and returned to the station to board a train to Jalna, some 350 km away. Meanwhile, the boy's father approached the Government Railway Police (GRP) saying his son had gone missing. Nagpur Shocker: Man Abducts Three-Year-Old Son From Estranged Wife's Custody in Broad Daylight in Tulsinagar.

The GRP registered a first information report (FIR) and began scanning the footage of the CCTV cameras installed on the station premises. The footage showed Waghmare moving with the boy. Mumbai Shocker: Man Kidnaps Ex-Girlfriend in Bhayandar, Calls Her Mother Demanding iPhone or Rs 1.5 Lakh Cash As Ransom; Arrested.

GRP nabbed Waghmare when he returned to the station, the official said, adding that he was planning to board a train to Jalna.

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