Child Abductors

Barely a few hours after a six-month-old baby was allegedly kidnapped from the district government hospital in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district, police rescued him and also arrested the woman abductor, officials said.

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.

Rumours about child abductors were being circulated on various social media platforms in some parts of West Bengal, prompting the state government to issue an advisory on Monday asking people not to believe them.

Three men, who were trying to help a boy cross a road, were rescued by police from an angry

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.

Two men in their 30s were beaten to death by a mob on Friday after they were mistaken for child kidnappers in Assam's Karbi Anglong, police said. The five main accused in the case have been arrested.

A woman mistaken as a child abductor was thrashed by a mob in Pakistan's Lahore when she was with a minor who, in fact, was her own son.

A man accused of kidnapping and fathering a child with a teenage girl who emerged 10 years later called the girl's mother shortly after she disappeared to say the girl would not return, the mother testified at his trial.

A two-and-half year old boy kidnapped from the city on November 2 for ransom was rescued and his abductors, including a woman, were arrested from West Bengal.

A seven-year-old boy, allegedly kidnapped earlier this month, died in captivity due to suffocation after being gagged by his abductors.

The mutilated body of an 11-year-old boy, Gulshan, who had gone missing four days back, was recovered from a defunct brick kiln in the Jarkala village, police said. His body was recovered after the three abductors, arrested on Sunday through call surveillance, revealed that they had already murdered the child, police said.

Barely a few hours after a six-month-old baby was allegedly kidnapped from the district government hospital in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district, police rescued him and also arrested the woman abductor, officials said.

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.

Rumours about child abductors were being circulated on various social media platforms in some parts of West Bengal, prompting the state government to issue an advisory on Monday asking people not to believe them.

Three men, who were trying to help a boy cross a road, were rescued by police from an angry

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.

Two men in their 30s were beaten to death by a mob on Friday after they were mistaken for child kidnappers in Assam's Karbi Anglong, police said. The five main accused in the case have been arrested.

A woman mistaken as a child abductor was thrashed by a mob in Pakistan's Lahore when she was with a minor who, in fact, was her own son.

A man accused of kidnapping and fathering a child with a teenage girl who emerged 10 years later called the girl's mother shortly after she disappeared to say the girl would not return, the mother testified at his trial.

A two-and-half year old boy kidnapped from the city on November 2 for ransom was rescued and his abductors, including a woman, were arrested from West Bengal.

A seven-year-old boy, allegedly kidnapped earlier this month, died in captivity due to suffocation after being gagged by his abductors.

The mutilated body of an 11-year-old boy, Gulshan, who had gone missing four days back, was recovered from a defunct brick kiln in the Jarkala village, police said. His body was recovered after the three abductors, arrested on Sunday through call surveillance, revealed that they had already murdered the child, police said.