New Born kidnapped from Medical College by woman dressed as nurse, Kerala Health Ministry orders probe
Kerala Health Minister Veena George on Friday ordered a probe into the incident of a new-born baby being kidnapped from the Medical college hospital here by a woman dressed as a nurse.
A woman, dressed as a nurse entered the gynaecology department of the medical hospital on Thursday and walked away with the infant at around 3 PM and it took more than half an hour for the child's mother and relatives to realise the baby had been kidnapped.
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However, the infant was traced within hours and handed over to the mother.
A woman, Neethu (33) who abducted the baby, was arrested.
''We have arrested the woman. Her friend, an Ernakulam resident, has also been taken into custody. We are interrogating both of them. Further details will be out soon,'' police told PTI.
Sources told PTI that the woman abducted the child to blackmail her lover by claiming that it was his child in order to force him to marry her. Apparently, the woman was pregnant earlier but suffered a miscarriage. She did not inform the miscarriage incident to her lover.
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