According to an official, Bhiwandi police in the district on Saturday freed a four-month-old child and arrested a 17-year-old Bangladeshi female who was suspected of kidnapping him.
The father of the child was reported missing in the morning from the Manpada region of Dombivli district.
Officials from the Crime Branch received a tip that the girl had taken the infant boy and was on her way to Bhiwandi. The infant was saved after she was apprehended at the Bhiwandi State Transport bus depot, according to senior inspector Yogesh Awhad of Bhiwandi police's crime section II.
Both were handed over to the Manpada police station, he added.
The girl, who was questioned through an interpreter, told police that she had been brought to India illegally by a man from Manpada who had promised her a job. He pushed her into the flesh trade instead, she claimed.
Her motive behind abducting the child was not known yet, inspector Awhad said.