Mahendra Patel was accused in an attempted Walmart kidnapping.

Case dismissed Mahendra Patel is a free man. Patel was accused in an attempted Walmart kidnapping. He was arrested in March after a mother claimed he tried to take her 2-year-old child while she was shopping at the Walmart off Cobb Parkway. (Edited on Aug 8 2025) Mahendra Patel, has been released on a $10000 bond. Patel said he has been reading Bhagwat Geeta inside the jail. A disturbing and cautionary case of Mahendra Patel's Arrest: (Story update on May 9 2025) (By our staff reporter) New York- The false allegations against Patel levelled by a Walmart shopper named Karen are so upsetting. Patel has spent the past month in jail even though evidence proved Caroline Miller lied. Mahendra Patel, a man of Indian origin, has been languishing in an American jail for over a month now. Patel, the 56-year-old, was accused of a crime that surveillance footage suggests never happened. Caroline Miller, the 26-year-old woman, accused Patel of trying to abduct her two-year-old toddler son at Walmart in the US's Georgia on March 18. Miller claimed that while shopping using a motorized cart with her two children, Patel first distracted her by asking for Tylenol and then tried to lift her son out of her lap, leading to what she described as a "tug of war" before she stopped him. However, footage from Walmart, reviewed by news organization Daily Mail, painted a different picture. Video from 20 different angles reportedly showed no such struggle between Patel and Miller. Instead, it captured Patel and Miller interacting briefly. Patel said he asked Miller for help locating Tylenol, a brand of acetaminophen used to relieve pain and reduce fever, for his ailing mother, The videos showed no evidence of Patel grabbing or attempting to snatch the child.