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Abducted baby restored to parents after 8 months

Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD: A woman casual labourer was arrested and the baby allegedly abducted by her restored to her parents in the city on Thursday.

The husband of the accused had reportedly deserted her and taken away her two children too.

Longing for a child, she had abducted the baby from Borabanda but could not elude the law for long. Eight months ago, Krishnamma (25), then working as an ayah in a private nursing home, came across the 18-month-old baby Arshiya Begum while she was playing in front of her house at Borabanda. She took the child and vanished on March 24 last.

But the baby's parents -- M.V. Ahmed and Asiya Begu -- never lost hope. Since then they had been searching and finally found their daughter at Krishnamma's house in Mangalhat. "Thank God. We got our baby back after eight months," Ahmed, who works as a welder, said hugging his daughter in delight.

After kidnapping the baby, Krishnamma took shelter in a bus stop at Koti for three days and later took a house on rent at Mangalhat.

As she was unable to go for work, the woman brought her younger sister Asha from their native Maktal village in Mahbubnagar district to take care of Arshiya.

Suspicious movements

A hospital staffer, who noticed her moving under suspicious circumstances at Nampally for a couple of days with the baby, informed the matter to the police. The police kept a constant vigil and nabbed her.

"I took the child to adopt her as my husband had deserted me and took my two children along with him," Krishnamma said.

Krishnamma worked as ayah at a hospital in Borabanda for three days prior to abduction of the child and met one Taher residing near Arshiya's house where she noticed the child, Sanjeeva Reddy Nagar Sub-Inspector S. Venkat Reddy said.

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