Child handed over to police missing, says complaint

Mystery shrouds the complaint registered at the Fort police station the other day by Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) district committee member Geetha Babu in connection with the missing of a one-and-a-half-year-old boy, whom she had reportedly handed over to the Vanchiyoor police.

The incident happened on Friday and the complaint was registered on Saturday. The complaint said that Geetha handed over a child which was given to her by a woman co-passenger inside a bus. “I held the child as requested by a woman who was standing in the bus, while I was sitting, when I was travelling from Pirappancode to the city. I had to alight at East Fort. She told me that she also had to get down there. But when the bus reached East Fort, she was not there in the bus and when I searched for her, I found her to be missing,” said the complaint.

Geetha also said in the complaint that as the woman was missing, she decided to hand over the child to a police station. “At that time, I found a police jeep coming and there were three police personnel in the vehicle, including a woman. I followed them to the Vanchiyoor police station in an auto with the child and handed over the child at the station,” the complaint read.

Geetha also said in the complaint that she had arrived in the city to participate in a programme of the BMS and returned on the same day. The complaint was registered when an enquiry by her colleagues on Saturday found  that the child was missing.

However, the police denied the claim by Geetha that the child was handed over to the  Vanchiyoor police station and also that the jeep mentioned in the complaint was not found anywhere.

‘’If a child was kept by someone in police custody, a message would be immediately passed on to all other police stations. We intimated all the police stations in Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam and Ernakulam as soon as we received the complaint. But till now, we have got no information in connection with it. Also, we could not locate the jeep mentioned in the complaint. The investigation is on,” said Fort station house officer D Anil Kumar, who is probing into the incident.

 However, Geetha Babu was unavailable for  comment.