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Pune child abduction- Child returned to the family after a week, accused still unidentified and at large

Swarnav (4) was kidnapped on January 11 and released on January 19 when he was dropped at a building in Punawale.

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Swarnav Chavan

New Delhi, January 21

The Pune police have started an in-depth investigation in abduction case of a four-year-old child of doctor couple from Pune who was abducted in Balewadi by a bike borne man and returned a week later. 

Swarnav Chavan (4) was kidnapped on January 11 and released on January 19 when he was dropped at a building in Punawale. The police reunited him with his family however the accused who abducted him are still at large. 

His photographs went viral on WhatsApp and Facebook groups in Pune, was kidnapped around 10am when he was walking to his playschool on January 11. The son of pathologists Dr. Satish Chavan and Prachi Chavan who run a laboratory in Balewadi, Swarnav alias Duggu was last seen in a CCTV grab showing him being borne away by unidentified motorbike rider.

The police stated that the suspected kidnapper dropped the boy with a security guard of a building near Lotus Business School in Punawale and asked him to look after the boy for 10 minutes. When he did not return, the child started crying. The security guard then found a phone number in the child’s bag and made a video call to the number, which was that of the boy’s father Dr Satish Chavan, who then alerted the police and came to fetch his son. 

The abduction case had given a challenge to Pune Police to trace the child. The Pune Crime Branch had formed several teams and almost deployed all the staff to trace the abducted child. 

The police scanned hours of footage from the CCTV cameras in and around Balewadi to track the movement of the bike on which the child was kidnapped. One of the footage had given a hint of the registration number to police though not visibly clear. Based on which the police again scanned numbers of over 75 bikes. 

The boy underwent a thorough medical examination of after his return and declared fit.

The Pune police teams are probing all the leads, scanning through more cameras, running through crime sheets of history sheeters and gangs involved in child kidnapping to ascertain who kidnapped the child and returned him after three days. 

The police have also not ruled out the hands of a known person to the family behind the abduction who knew intricate details of the family’s routine, parents and the child. 





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