City police have arrested the woman who stole a baby boy from the Old Government Hospital here on July 14. Four other men, including her husband and three staff of the hospital, were also arrested.
Producing the accused before the media here on Thursday, Commissioner of Police D. Gautam Sawang said that the stolen baby could be traced only due to the support of public.
The accused were identified as K. Naga Malleswari (27), her husband M. Jyothi Swarjana Raju (29) of Avanigadda, hospital record assistant Srinu (51) and security guards Mukherji and Kannaiah.
DCP B. Palaraju said that Malleswari married Raju by concealing her first marriage and then a live-in relationship with another man. She had two girl children from the first marriage and had also undergone the family planning operation.
Though she recently told Raju about her first marriage and the children, she still kept her inability to conceive a secret.
To cover it up, she lied to him that she got pregnant. She planned to go to Chennai on the pretext of treatment and later steal a baby, police said.
Malleswari then befriended Srinu and sought his help to steal a newborn. It was then that Srinu suggested the baby of Ita Kalyani.
On July 14, she took away the baby from the hospital. The two security guards posted at the hospital ignored the movements of Malleswari as she was familiar to Srinu.
Malleswari then reached home and showed the baby to Raju who, despite hearing the news of baby theft from the hospital, agreed to keep the infant.
Upon receiving information from neighbours of the accused in Avanigadda, the police traced the baby the next day.
The stolen baby could be traced only due to the support of public, says Commissioner
of Police.
