A late-night police encounter in Bareilly district led to the rescue of a one-and-a-half-year-old boy who had been kidnapped from Manauna Shyam Temple in Aonla earlier this week, officials said on Wednesday. Two alleged members of an inter-district child trafficking gang were arrested after sustaining bullet injuries in retaliatory firing by police, they added. According to police, preliminary investigation indicates that the accused kidnapped the child with the intention of selling him. (For representation) Rishabh, the son of Raman, a sanitation worker employed at the temple, was allegedly kidnapped on Sunday afternoon from the temple premises, triggering a massive police search operation across multiple districts. According to SP (South) Anshika Verma, investigators initially recovered CCTV footage showing two suspicious men near the temple around the time of the kidnapping. Based on the footage and other intelligence inputs, five police teams were formed to trace the kidnappers and rescue the child. Late Tuesday night, police received information that the accused were travelling on a motorcycle on Aliganj Road with the kidnapped toddler. Acting swiftly, police teams …