Minor son of an NRI woman who was allegedly whisked away to India from the US three years ago by her former husband, has been found at Pune, police said on Sunday.

Mihir, five-year-old son of Deepa Topiwala, was tracked at a resort in Pune along with his father and grand-parents.

Deepa had approached the Gujarat High Court with a habeas corpus petition after she failed to trace her son.
The boy, would be produced in the High Court on Monday to decide  his custody, officials said adding the boy along with his father and grandparents have been kept at a guest-house in Navsari under police watch.

Deepa reunited with her child after a gap of almost three years in Navsari on Saturday when police brought the child there. “It is a nice feeling to see my child after a gap of three years.

I was overwhelmed by emotions.” Deepa came to India after American investigation agency FBI probed into the case and informed her that Nimesh Topiwala, her former husband had taken her son to Navsari town in south Gujarat.

She got married to Nimesh in 1999 and gave birth to a boy. However, because of “irreconcilable” differences between them, they separated after few years of marriage, Deepa said, adding Mihir was in her custody even after that.

“But his father was allowed to meet Mihir (who was then two and half-year-old) occasionally following a court order in 2004.

During one such meeting, he was whisked away to India by the former without my knowledge,” she said vehemently.