India, Oct. 16 -- A four-year-old boy was rescued from a train at Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow railway station nearly eight hours after he was kidnapped from south Delhi's Amar Colony by a man who had allegedly been stalking his mother, Delhi Police said on Wednesday. The accused has been arrested.

The 24-year-old accused, identified as Sudhakar Singh from Ayodhya, befriended the boy's mother on social media around a year ago. He had been pressuring her to leave her husband and marry him. Singh, who sells flowers for a living, had threatened to kidnap the woman's son after she turned down his marriage proposal multiple times, said deputy commissioner of police (southeast) Hemant Tiwari.

On October 12, DCP Tiwari said that the Amar Colony pol...