8-month-old reunited with parents, four days after he went missing in Bengaluru

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The infant, born to a blind couple, was kidnapped on Saturday at the Kempegowda bus station.

TNM Staff

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An eight-month-old child of a blind couple, who went missing in Bengaluru on Saturday was reunited with his parents after four days. The couple — Basavaraj and BK Chinnu, hail from Arakere village in Devadurga, part of Raichur district and had come to the city to visit the chief minister seeking financial help. The incident occurred as soon as they reached Bengaluru on Saturday morning at the Kempegowda bus station and Chinnu went to a drinking water booth for her son Sagar. This is when one woman offered help and fed Sagar but did not return the child. “Around 7.30 am, we were waiting for a bus when a woman helped us lift our luggage. She took my son in her arms three times and returned him before taking him away saying that she would get him some water to drink. We thought she was sympathetic to us and did not suspect anything,” Basavaraju told The New Indian Express. Following this, the couple lodged a complaint with Upparpet Police Station and a special search team was formed. The couple had been roaming around the city looking for their child. On Tuesday, two Kengeri residents— Parvathamma and Lakshmidevi, brought the child to the police station after learning from media reports that the child belonged to a blind couple. Parvathamma said that an unidentified woman handed the child to her while she was standing near a public toilet on April 27 and asked her to keep him till she returned, but she never turned up.  “We had lost our eye (son) on Saturday and are now getting it back,” Basavaraju toldThe Times of India after getting back his son. The couple run an orchestra and were seeking relief from the chief minister. Meanwhile, this issue has highlighted the issue of malfunctioning or defunct CCTV cameras at bus stops. A Times of India report said that 16 cameras at Kempegowda Bus Station are not working.“We tried to get the abductor’s photographs from CCTV footage but were shocked to realise half the cameras were not working. Visuals from the remaining cameras were blurred,” a police officer told the newspaper.  

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