Toronto police say they are looking for a 48-year-old father wanted in connection with a parental abduction after a young child was taken to India last year and did not return to Canada.
Police said the father travelled with his three-year-old son Valentino to Delhi, India on July 2024. The father and son had a court-ordered return date set for Aug. 8, 2024.
“The accused has failed to return to Canada,” police said. Investigators added that the accused kept custody of the child going against the court order.
Police are looking for Kapil Sunak, 48, wanted for abduction by parent/custody order.
Sunak is described as six feet three inches tall with a heavy build and short brown hair and facial hair.
The boy is described as four feet tall, 45 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes.
The force is asking anyone with information on their whereabouts to contact police.
Kapil Sunak, 48 (left) and Valentino, 3 (right).
Provided / Toronto Police
Another parental abduction case from Toronto
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Toronto Police have also previously issued a news release about a separate parental abduction case involving a father who allegedly took his three-year-old son to Vietnam in February 2024.
The mother, Heather McArthur, said the trip was to supposedly celebrate Lunar New Year as part of a vacation cleared by the courts. She spoke to Global News in September 2024.
“I expected my son to return on Feb. 15, and on that day, I received a note from the father stating that they weren’t going to be coming back,” McArthur said, noting at the time that she had not seen her son in more than seven months.
McArthur added she received an email from her former partner stating their son had a rash and required “some sort of prescription” to be administered in Vietnam.
“Then the final note was that Jacob had a follow-up appointment on Feb. 28, which is my birthday, and he would get back to us after that date. That follow-up appointment never occurred and there was no communication,” she said.
Toronto police released an image of Jacob’s father on May 7 and requested the public’s help in locating him as he was “wanted in a parental abduction investigation.”
— with files from Global News’ Caryn Lieberman
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