Mumbai police have issued a warning against spreading rumours about alleged child kidnapping incidents in the city. This followed several messages going viral on social media platforms like WhatsApp and Facebook.
These viral messages are being shared in the form of voice notes and text messages have claimed that over 800 child kidnappings have been reported in Mumbai including details of individual cases in areas of Kurla and Andheri.
BOOM spoke to Mumbai police officials who said they investigated the incidents mentioned in the messages and found that they were baseless and no such kidnapping cases have taken place in the city and all viral posts are talking about fake incidents.
One of the viral messages asks "mothers" in Mumbai to be alert and claims, "Kids r getting kidnapped In Mumbai. It is been observed by the complaints file at most of the police station in Mumbai tht more than 800 children's age between 5 to 15 specially school going are been getting kidnapped for human trafficking."
The post further goes on to talk about a kidnapping of a 11-year-old boy named Nishant. The message read like this: "When My Son Nishant Age 11 Years, Was Playing Around Society, Vasudev Nagar, Nagardas Road, Opp SOna Udhyog Industries, Pari Panchayat Road Andheri East. A Suspicious Person Saw Him alone and He Dragged Him CLosing his Mouth and Carried him on arms and Started Walking around 700-800 Meters Bravely My Son Bite his Hands and Ran Far and Entered a Shop. Luckily he Was...
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