Kidnapped child traced to Khanna

Gurminder Singh Grewal

Khanna, September 23

The police claimed to have arrested the woman, who abducted the 16-day-old infant from the Civil Hospital Khanna, within a few hours today.

The accused has been identified as Narinder Kaur, alias Nimo, wife of Sanjeev Singh, a resident of Narotam Nagar, Khanna.

The child was handed back to his parents by SSP Khanna NS Mahal. SSP Khanna said the woman admitted that she abducted the child and later sold him to one Jasvir Singh and his wife Dharmjit Kaur of Khanna for Rs50,000 through Iqbal Kaur, wife of Kuldip Singh, residents of Khanna. As per the SSP, the police teams working on different theories recovered the child in just five hours and arrested the main accused Nimo and three others, including Iqbal Kaur, Jasvir Singh and Dharamjit Kaur. The SSP said special teams were constituted on the directions of IG Jalandhar Zone Arpit Shukla and DIG Ludhiana range Gursharn Singh and the teams attained success in just a few hours to trace the child and arrested the accused.

Panic had spread at Khanna Civil Hospital, when a 16-day-old infant was allegedly kidnapped by an unidentified woman. The incident happened at 12.45 pm, when a woman posing as a doctor gave something to eat to the mother of the child along with Rs20 and fled with the child.

Meanwhile, the police recovered the CCTV footage, in which the woman who kidnapped the child was seen. Sunita, mother of the abducted child, narrated the incident and said she brought her child to the hospital for some vaccine. When she was waiting for some doctor, a woman in a pink suit and white jacket suddenly appeared and asked her the reason why she was here. Sunita said she told her that she had come to get her child vaccinated, adding that the woman told her to get his blood test done. In the meantime, the woman took the child from his mother and gave Rs20 to her to go and eat something.

The mother thought her to be a doctor and went out to eat kulcha after handing over the child to her. When she came back, she found the woman missing. She narrated the incident to the hospital authorities and her family members, after which Khanna police officials also reached the spot and started probe to trace the woman and the abducted child.

SMO Khanna Dr Gulati said they have told people not to hand over their children to unidentified people a number of times and flayed any negligence on the part of the hospital.

SP(I) Khanna RPS Sandhu said they got the CCTV footage of the accused. As per preliminary investigation, the accused came empty-handed from the back door of the hospital and later returned with the child in her lap. The SP said they flashed the pictures of the woman at a number of places for identification and to recover the child soon. As per the SP, the abducted child’s parents were labourers and belonged to Bihar but at present were residing at Dalip Nagar Khanna.