A six-day-old baby boy who went missing from Government Raja Sir Ramaswamy Mudaliar (RSRM) Lying In Hospital at Royapuram was traced to the hospital premises within an hour.
Police said M. Selvi was delivered of a baby last Sunday at the hospital and was in ward 9 with her child. On Saturday morning, she was accompanied by her mother to the bathroom. They had asked the attendant of a patient in the bed next to them to keep an eye on the baby. However, the attendant fell asleep.
On their return, they found the infant missing. On being alerted, police and hospital authorities closed all the gates.
Following a thorough search of the premises by the police and the hospital authorities, a woman was spotted with the infant in ward number 7.
On being questioned, the accused, Ramjan Begum of Puducherry, confessed to having stolen the infant.
A senior police officer said that an investigation was on to ascertain whether she was part of a group. “We have 62 CCTV cameras on the hospital campus,” an official said. Last September, an infant was stolen from the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital but was rescued the next day.
