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Wednesday, May 11, 2005

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Woman arrested, kidnapped child recovered

Staff Reporter

Abduction took place four hours after birth of the child in hospital

BACK HOME: Newly born baby who was rescued from kidnappers at Police Headquarters in the Capital on Tuesday

NEW DELHI: : The North West Delhi police have recovered a two-month old child who had been kidnapped from Sanjay Gandhi Hospital on February 25 and arrested a 38-year-old woman in connection with the crime.

The police said the boy was born to 20-year-old Kiran Devi, a resident of Sultanpuri, at 1-30 a.m. on February 25. While Kiran is a homemaker, her husband, Anil Kumar, works at a furniture shop in Rohini.

Barely four hours after the child's birth, when Kiran's mother-in-law went to fetch boiled water for her, a lady pretending to be hospital staff went up to Kiran and took the child on the pretext that the duty doctor was calling him for a check-up. Subsequently, when Kiran's mother-in-law enquired from the doctors and staff on duty, he found that the child had been called for a check-up and had been kidnapped. A case was consequently registered at Mangolpuri police station.

During investigations the police found that the suspect had come to the labour room on February 24 also and had befriended the staff and guards of the labour room of the hospital. She had enquired from all the mothers of newly born babies about the gender of their child. On that day only baby girls had been born and Kiran's baby was the first male child to be born after her visit.

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Based on the portrait and description given by the eye-witness local enquiries were conducted in Mangolpuri and it was revealed by a person that a woman with matching features stays in trans-Yamuna area and does surveys of newly born children in the area.

Subsequently, the police identified the woman as Surinder Kaur who had stayed at Mangolpuri a decade back and had been arrested for the murder of her husband also.

Though the whereabouts of Surinder Kaur were not known, the police discovered that her accomplice in the murder was Vibhishan, a "Phat-Phat Sew'' driver of the trans-Yamuna area. As such several drivers of the service were questioned and it was revealed that Surinder was staying in Usmanpur and was in the process of selling a male child.

The police said Surinder Kaur was arrested from her Gali No. 5, Teesra Pushta house in Usmanpur and the child was recovered from her possession. During interrogation, she allegedly confessed that she had committed the crime since she was having a financial problem and wanted to make money by selling the child. Also, she told the police that she was forced to frequently change her houses following the incident to avoid being caught.

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