Navi Mumbai: Kamothe police traced a seven year old boy who was allegedly ‘kidnapped’ within six hours to Nevasa in Ahmednagar. The incident was reported on Thursday morning at around 8 am to the control room.

“Prima face, the information we received was that a 7-year-old boy was kidnapped from the Kamothe by few men who came in a Scorpio jeep,” Assistant police inspector Priyanka Kharatmal from Kamothe police station said. The police immediately deployed a team of police and started their investigations and attempts to trace the boy.

During the course of investigation, the police found that the boy's parents had been living separately for the past five years.

When the child was around two years, since then he was saying with his father and around two months back, in theh month of October, the mother went to meet the son in the school and got him home and since then he had been staying with the mother.

“In between, the father went to meet the son and saw that the son was collecting scrap material which he did not like and decided to take him back. The father, with the help of some of his friends, then picked him up and went to Ahmednagar,” the officer added.

The incident happened near the ground at Motha Khanda around 8 AM on Thursday when the boy was paying around in the ground.

After he was ‘kidnapped’, the mother registered a kidnapping case with Kamothe police immediately. The mother alleged that the kidnappers were transgenders.

The police also learnt that the father of the boy too was a transgender. With the help of the technical details collected by the police, they traced the boy with his father at Nevasa.

With the help of the local crime branch in Shrirampur, Ahmednagar, the Kamothe police, using technical surveillance, successfully located the boy, three transgender individuals, and one driver in their vehicle.

“Even as a kidnapping case is registered, no arrests are made and the person who took him was his father. The couple is not divorced hence the father cannot be made an accused. The boy continues to be in the custody of the father,” the officer added. The further course of the case would be decided by the court.