NAGPUR: A Nagpur man was arrested after he left a 4-year-old boy in a train, claiming that he had been kidnapped as he was trying to save the child from his relationship with his mother, an official said on Sunday. I saw him as an obstacle.

He said that before fabricating the story of kidnapping, Hansraj Dnyaneshwar Dakhne (25) allegedly left the child in the train on Friday.

The boy's mother had left her husband after a marital dispute and came to Nagpur to work in a lodge. She met accused Hansraj Dnyaneshwar Dakhne (25) and the two got into a relationship, the officer said.

However, Dakhne wanted to get rid of the boy.

Under the guise of taking the boy to school for admission on Friday, Dakhne left him on a Wardha-bound train and returned claiming that three men had kidnapped him. After this the woman contacted the police.

When the police interrogated Dakhne, he confessed to leaving the child in the train. Ganeshpeth police, with the help of Government Railway Police (GRP), traced the boy to Wardha railway station and reunited him with his mother, the official said.

Dakhne has been arrested for charges including abandonment of a child and kidnapping under the Indian Penal Code, the official said.