Bhiwandi: Within 12 hours of a three-year-old Bhiwandi boy being kidnapped and sold recently, police arrested three persons, including a neighbour. The child was rescued and reunited with his parents. Police said the boy, Mohammad Ansari, was playing outside his home on Nov 17. When the family couldn’t locate him later, it approached police. Police found that the child was last seen in a hotel with a neighbour, Mohammad Yunus Shah. Yunus revealed that he sold the boy for Rs 60,000 to a Mumbai resident, Peer Mohammad. Police promptly tracked him down. —Pradeep Gupta