TN woman held for abducting newborn from hospital
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Chennai: Tamil Nadu police on Sunday arrested a woman for allegedly kidnapping a two-day-old baby from Vellore Government Medical College hospital.
The baby was born on August 17 to K. Sundar (40), a labourer from Kannamangalam town, and his wife S. Suriyakala (37).
Suryakala was staying in the hospital for a family planning program. On August 19 evening, she woke up from her sleep only to find the baby missing and immediately informed her husband and the police.
Vellore Superintendent of Police, Manivannan constituted four police teams and examined the CCTV visuals at the hospital and also at the nearby bus and railway stations.
The visuals from the hospital revealed a woman hurriedly moving from the hospital with the newborn.
Police teams of Ranipet and Kancheepuram coordinated and found that the woman was S. Padma.
The police traced the woman to a bus moving towards Kancheepuram and was taken into custody on Sunday at 1.30 am.
The baby was immediately taken to the Vellore Government Hospital for further health checkups.
With inputs from IANS
