India, Feb. 14 -- The Borivali Government Railway Police (GRP) with the help of Ulhasnagar police arrested a 24-year-old man for allegedly kidnapping the 5-year-old son of pavement dwellers and reunited the rescued child with his parents.

Police officers said the accused, identified as Karan Kanojia, had planned to take the child to his native place in Uttar Pradesh, as he wanted a boy child. They said Kanojia, a labourer, was married but did not have any children.

The officers said he had come to Mumbai a few weeks ago in search of work and lived on the pavement near Goregaon railway station, a little distance away from the place occupied by the child's family.

In the early hours of Tuesday, the child's mother woke up to find him miss...