Absconding woman held in connection with baby girl's abduction

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Press Trust of India Hyderabad
Last Updated : Jul 05 2018 | 6:30 PM IST

A 30-year-old woman, who was absconding after allegedly kidnapping a six-day-old baby girl from a state-run hospital here on July 2, was today arrested, police said.

The woman had taken the baby from her mother on the pretext of getting her vaccinated and had fled to Bidar in Karnataka, Hyderabad Police Commissioner Anjani Kumar told reporters here.

CCTV footage at the hospital showed the woman taking the baby outside the hospital and later boarding a Bidar-bound bus.

With the footage going viral and the print and electronic media displaying the woman's photo, a friend of her family identified the image and informed them, police said.

The accused and members of her family got scared about getting arrested and decided to leave the girl at a government hospital in Bidar and left the baby there on July 3 and went absconding, police said.

After tracing the baby to the hospital the same day, a police team from Hyderabad got her reunited with her mother on July 4, police said.

The woman was traced and arrested and she was brought here today, they said.

During questioning the woman "confessed" to having committed the offence since she could not bear children, the Commissioner said.

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First Published: Jul 05 2018 | 6:30 PM IST

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