Mobile signals have helped the Chittoor police trace and restore a five-day-old baby boy to his mother within 24 hours of being stolen from the government hospital here.
Shabana (25) of Mangasamudram village, near Chittoor, had delivered the baby on March 14. Even as she was undergoing treatment in the hospital, an unidentified woman stole the infant from the ward in the early hours of March 19.
Following a complaint, the police swung into action and took a woman suspect into custody. As the accused shared the mobile number of a couple from Visakhapatnam to whom she had handed over the baby, the police, with the help of the mobile signals, traced the couple and the infant near Chilakaluripet in Guntur district late in the evening.
