On Saturday, Hyderabad IPS officer Swati Lakra tweeted a picture of a police inspector smiling ear to ear, holding a baby boy cracking an even bigger toothless smile. The pleasing photograph of inspector R Sanjay Kumar, who rescued the four-month-old Faizan Khan from a kidnapping has gone viral.
“The boy was crying but as soon as I took him in my arms, he became quiet, looked at me with eyes wide open and a big toothless grin followed,” said Kumar in an interview to The Indian Express. The Nampally inspector rescued the child within 15 hours of his kidnapping. “It filled my heart with happiness. The moment may have been captured by camera, but it will remain etched in my mind forever.’’
On Wednesday night, Khan was kidnapped from his mother Humera Begum, a beggar residing on a pavement in Nampally in Hyderabad, while they were sleeping. When Begum found her child to be missing at around 4.30 am, she lodged a complaint at the Nampally police station at once. Thanks to the CCTV cameras in the area, Kumar and team cracked the case and nabbed suspects Mohammed Mushtaq and Mohammed Yusuf.
On further questioning, Yusuf and Mushtaq revealed that they kidnapped the child to help Mushtaq’s relatives, a childless couple who were looking to adopt a baby from an impoverished family. But Mushtaq’s relatives weren’t convinced. “Mushtaq introduced Yusuf as the boy’s uncle, but Ghouse (Mushtaq’s relative) refused to accept the boy, saying he would like to meet the parents and adopt the child only if they were willing,” Kumar told the newspaper. “Late on Thursday evening, they returned to the dargah near their home with the infant and the police team waiting there arrested them.”
Here is how Twitter rejoiced at the memorable image.
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