A five-day-old baby, allegedly kidnapped from a Government hospital in Maharashtra on September 27, was safely rescued by the Timarpur police personnel on Sunday. The case was solved in a Joint Operation with the Mumbai Police Crime Branch.
Police said that the accused, 60-year-old Mallika Begum, a resident of Wazirabad Village in Timarpur was behind the kidnapping of the infant.She disclosed it to the police that since her daughter was not able to conceive for a long time, her married life was strained. To resolve this issue, the elderly woman allegedly stole the new born baby from the Government hospital in Buldhana in Maharashtra.
Mallika Begum told police that after kidnapping the new born baby, she had given him to her daughter. In order to escape from police net, the accused in connivance with her daughter had planned to take the infant to Saudi Arabia.
A senior police officer, privy to the investigation said, "On September 23, 30-year-old Soniya Parveen had given birth to a baby in a Government hospital. Post the delivery, the infant was kept in the NICU (Natal Intensive Care unit).
However, after three days, when Soniya Parveen came to see her baby, she found that he was missing. Worried, she along with her husband Atik Khan approached the hospital authorities, but in vain.
On September 27, the woman approached the Buldhana police station to register a case. Seeing the severity of it, was transferred to the Mumbai Crime Branch. A team led by the Mumbai Crime Branch Inspector Manoj Kumar Kedar scanned through the CCTV footage of the cameras installed inside the hospital.
"With the help of the CCTV footage and local Intelligence, the team found that a burqa clad woman was seen suspiciously moving in and around the NICU. On the night of September 24, the accused was seen outside the NICU. Based on the CCTV footage, the crime branch team zeroed down on the registration number of the car, a white Indigo, in which the accused had fled with the new born baby. The car driver was tracked and at his instance, the team reached Aurangabad where the driver had dropped the woman," said the senior police officer.
Based on local enquiry, police managed to trace the woman to Delhi in Timarpur. A team led by SHO Timarpur laid a trap and the elderly woman was arrested.