Parents of kidnapped kid want accused to take narco test

Parents of 12-year-old mentally challenged boy seek high court permission to let CID perform tests that would help trace location of child

Even after four months, Ashish Ranjan alias Molu (12), a mentally challenged boy who was kidnapped from the Pune railway station platform, is yet to be traced. His parents are now seeking permission from the Bombay High Court to let the state Criminal Investigation Department (CID) subject the kidnapper to narco-analysis and brain-mapping tests, so that they can get leads about his location.

Molu was allegedly kidnapped by one Pramod Kamble on November 26, last year, from platform No 1 of the Pune railway station.

The CCTV cameras installed on the platform had captured Kamble taking Molu towards platform No 6. Molu's father Jitendra Kumar Singh, who works as a junior engineer with the Central Railways, has filed an affidavit in this regard on March 14. The high court will be hearing Singh's plea today and give orders on further course of investigation.

Singh expressed satisfaction over the CID's progress on investigation but said that every possible step should be taken to trace Molu as early as possible.

"The police said the accused Kamble can not be taken in remand now. The CID officers are trying their best but nothing has happened till date. We have no other choice but to ask the court to permit the investigative agency to subject the accused to narco-analysis and brain-mapping test. By this, we can get to know exactly where the accused has left Molu," Singh said.

Advocate Amitkumar Bhaumik, who is representing Singh in the high court said: "The Pune-Manmad Express arrived at 12.05 pm on platform No 6 and left at 12.50 pm, presumably, with Molu on board along with Kamble's accomplices. It is important not only to trace Molu and find out what happened to him and in whose custody Kamble has left him in, but also to investigate if there might be a sinister racket of kidnapping such mentally handicapped or other little children for purposes of begging, organ transplant, among others."