Two more babies were recovered on the basis of the lead given by the two gangsters who were on police custody. In this connection Jayaprakash, Chennai based middle man and Ramalingam, an accomplice of Dhanalakshmi were arrested by the Krishnagiri police.
Police sources said that the accused in the baby kidnapping case, Dhanalakshmi confessed that she had kidnapped a four day old male baby belonging to N. Mumtaj hailing from Tiruppathur at the Tiruppathur GH and a two and half year old boy of S. Sangeetha of Pernambattu Colony on July 23, 2008 and handed over to Girija another accused in the case under the police custody.
In turn Girija sold the four day old baby to Puzhuthiraj-Mekala couple in Jainagar in Bangalore for Rs.99,000 and another baby was sold to Periyasamy-Kamalam couple living near Salem By-pass in Krishnagiri for Rs.50,000.
Based on her confession, the special police team recovered the two babies and produced before the court in Krishnagiri.
Magistrate Sundarraj ordered to leave the babies to the present parents and also directed them to produce the child in the court, at the same time the original parents should bring their DNA and blood sample laboratory report on Tuesday.
With this, the babies recovered from the kidnappers rose to eleven and the number of persons arrested to nine.
