India, Sept. 29 -- A year-old boy, allegedly abducted while sleeping on a footpath outside Ganga Ram Hospital in central Delhi with his parents last Wednesday, has been rescued from Uttar Pradesh's Mahoba district, police said on Sunday, adding that five people have been held in the matter.

Deputy commissioner of police (central) Nidhin Valsan said that the child, who was recovered on Friday (September 26), had been sold for Rs.45,000 to a man in Uttar Pradesh.

The nabbed people include the buyer and a juvenile. Besides a scooter, car and cash have also been seized in the case, the DCP added.

Police said that the matter was reported on September 24 when the child's father, Mukesh Kumar, a handicraft seller from Rajasthan, lodged a comp...