Ahmedabad: Newborn reunited with parents, abductor held

AHMEDABAD: Sola police on Wednesday caught a 25-year-old woman from Sarkhej for abducting a newborn girl from Sola Civil Hospital on September 2.

The woman, Nagma Ghori, allegedly abducted the two-day infant because she did not have a child of her own, said police officers.
A Sola police team led by inspector J P Jadeja and 70 cops checked footage from some 500 CCTV cameras on the 15-km stretch from Sola to Sarkhej crossroads and cracked the case.
Ghori separated from her husband about six years ago and wanted a child. She decided to abduct a newborn child around a year ago.
On September 1, at around 3pm, she went to Sola Civil Hospital and watched the 40 women and their newborn children there. She stayed there till she abducted the newborn at around 2.30am.
“On seeing the newborn and her mother sleeping, she went closer picked up the child calmly to make sure she would not start crying and swiftly walked out of the maternity ward and then the hospital,” said a police officer.
Ghori walked for around 6km while holding the baby and tried to hail an autorickshaw.
As she did not get a rickshaw, she began flagging down people going on two-wheelers.
A man on a scooter stopped on seeing her and she told him that the newborn was her child and she was trying to save herself from her husband who was trying to beat her.
The man advised her to go to the police, but she insisted that he drop her to an autorickshaw so that she could go to her place.
He agreed to her appeal and took her to near Hebatpur Crossroads, where she found an autorickshaw and it took her till Sarkhej Crossroads. There, she changed rickshaws and then went to her home in Sarkhej.
After tracing the accused through CCTV footage, a team of police stayed in Sarkhej for about three days till they caught Ghori with the infant.