Child Abduction

A woman and three men have been held for allegedly kidnapping a 10-month old boy from Bandra in Mumbai and then selling the infant, who was finally rescued from Telangana, police said on Friday.

Two persons allegedly involved in abducting a newborn child were arrested after a brief encounter in a village in Uttar Pradesh's Hapur district, police said.

The Bengaluru City Police rescued an 11-year-old boy within 24 hours of his abduction from the heart of the city, and arrested all the kidnappers, including the main conspirator who was shot at after he opened fire at the police personnel.

"There's so much happening around us and it's time to highlight them on screen," said Jyothika

The parents of a 14-year-old Pakistani Christian girl, who was abducted, forcibly converted to Islam and married off to her abductor, will approach the Supreme Court after a lower court ruled that marriage with an underage girl is valid as per the Sharia law if she has had her first menstrual cycle.

A growing number of foreigners in Japan are speaking out against what they say is a little-known but entrenched system that allows one parent in a broken relationship to take away the children and block the other from visiting them.

A man's abducting his toddler daughter and taking her illegally to Dubai, away from his estranged wife, has invited the wrath of a Delhi court which has declared the mother to be the guardian and custodian of the child for "her paramount interest and welfare".

The police in Bihar have seen a rising number of lynching incidents in the recent months. According to data provided by the police headquarters, 14 people have been beaten to death, while 45 people have been injured in mob lynching incidents during the last two and a half months. During this time, 39 incidents of mob-lynching were registered in the...

Ins Madrigal, who last year became the face of a decades long child abduction scandal that still haunts Spain, has discovered that she was not among the estimated 30,000 babies stolen during the rule of dictator Gen. Francisco Franco.

One of the leading members of a group prosecutors accused of abusing children at a New Mexico compound struggled with his plan to live off the grid after he underestimated a harsh mountain desert climate and settled on the wrong plot of land.

A 20-year-old man was arrested on Thursday for allegedly abducting and killing a seven-year-old boy in Thane district, police said.

Union minister Maneka Gandhi said the option of signing the Hague Convention on inter-country abduction of children by parents was still open, and a mediation cell will be constituted to resolve such cases till a decision was taken on signing the convention.

A four-year-old boy, who was kidnapped by a couple here in April, was rescued from Nepal, the police said today.

The rumour-driven crowd that targetted five men in Karnataka's Bidar on Friday, killing one of them and injuring two others, had even taken on the police when they arrived, says the First Information Report filed in the case. The men from Hyderabad, out on a picnic in the countryside, were seen offering chocolates to local children, raising suspici...

The bloody trail of mob killings across India fuelled by rumours of child kidnappers on the prowl appears to have its origins in Jharkhand.

A woman and three men have been held for allegedly kidnapping a 10-month old boy from Bandra in Mumbai and then selling the infant, who was finally rescued from Telangana, police said on Friday.

Two persons allegedly involved in abducting a newborn child were arrested after a brief encounter in a village in Uttar Pradesh's Hapur district, police said.

The Bengaluru City Police rescued an 11-year-old boy within 24 hours of his abduction from the heart of the city, and arrested all the kidnappers, including the main conspirator who was shot at after he opened fire at the police personnel.

"There's so much happening around us and it's time to highlight them on screen," said Jyothika

The parents of a 14-year-old Pakistani Christian girl, who was abducted, forcibly converted to Islam and married off to her abductor, will approach the Supreme Court after a lower court ruled that marriage with an underage girl is valid as per the Sharia law if she has had her first menstrual cycle.

A growing number of foreigners in Japan are speaking out against what they say is a little-known but entrenched system that allows one parent in a broken relationship to take away the children and block the other from visiting them.

A man's abducting his toddler daughter and taking her illegally to Dubai, away from his estranged wife, has invited the wrath of a Delhi court which has declared the mother to be the guardian and custodian of the child for "her paramount interest and welfare".

The police in Bihar have seen a rising number of lynching incidents in the recent months. According to data provided by the police headquarters, 14 people have been beaten to death, while 45 people have been injured in mob lynching incidents during the last two and a half months. During this time, 39 incidents of mob-lynching were registered in the...

Ins Madrigal, who last year became the face of a decades long child abduction scandal that still haunts Spain, has discovered that she was not among the estimated 30,000 babies stolen during the rule of dictator Gen. Francisco Franco.

One of the leading members of a group prosecutors accused of abusing children at a New Mexico compound struggled with his plan to live off the grid after he underestimated a harsh mountain desert climate and settled on the wrong plot of land.

A 20-year-old man was arrested on Thursday for allegedly abducting and killing a seven-year-old boy in Thane district, police said.

Union minister Maneka Gandhi said the option of signing the Hague Convention on inter-country abduction of children by parents was still open, and a mediation cell will be constituted to resolve such cases till a decision was taken on signing the convention.

A four-year-old boy, who was kidnapped by a couple here in April, was rescued from Nepal, the police said today.

The rumour-driven crowd that targetted five men in Karnataka's Bidar on Friday, killing one of them and injuring two others, had even taken on the police when they arrived, says the First Information Report filed in the case. The men from Hyderabad, out on a picnic in the countryside, were seen offering chocolates to local children, raising suspici...

The bloody trail of mob killings across India fuelled by rumours of child kidnappers on the prowl appears to have its origins in Jharkhand.