New Delhi: A decade after the kidnapping of a four-year-old boy in West Bengal's Malda district, the Supreme Court has issued notices to the Centre and state government on a plea by his ailing mother seeking custody of her son now staying with a couple in Bangladesh.
A bench of Justices K G Balakrsihnan and L S Panta sought response from the Home Ministry, CBI, West Bengal government and others on a habeas corpus petition filed by Bina Devi Santhalia, who alleged that authorities did not help her in finding her son, who has been in the illegal custody of a couple in Bangladesh since December 1996.
The Indian High Commission in Bangladesh has also been named as a respondent in the petition.
Bina, a cancer patient, alleged her four-year-old son Pankaj Kumar Santhalia alias Rinku was kidnapped by a Bangaldeshi couple, Arjun Aggarwal and Nirmala Devi, from the home of her friend in Malda on December 15, 1996.
She refuted the claim of the Bangladeshi couple that her son was given in adoption to them, contending they hatched a conspiracy with others to kidnap her child.
In the petition, she said that she even wrote letters to the Prime Ministers of both countries as well as other concerned authorities, but failed to get any relief.
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