A 30-year-old woman was arrested for kidnapping a newborn male baby from the Government Medical College Hospital in Vellore on August 20. Police rescued the baby within eight hours.
Police said that K. Sundar (40), a labourer from Kannamangalam town near Arani, admitted his wife S. Suriyakala (37) at the government hospital a few days ago. Suriyakala gave birth to a boy on August 17 at the hospital and was taking treatment there. She also decided to go for a family planning procedure and stayed for it in the hospital.
Around 6.45 p.m. on August 19 (Saturday) when she got up from her bed, she found her baby boy was missing. Immediately, she informed her husband Sundar, who in turn lodged a complaint at Vellore Taluk Police station immediately.
