JALANDHAR: While safely recovering a new-born male baby stolen from Civil Hospital Jalandhar on Friday, soon after his birth, Jalandhar Commissionerate Police on Saturday arrested five persons including a panchayat member and a sanitation employee of the Civil Hospital.
The accused have been identified as Gurpreet Singh Gopi, 22, panchayat member of Village Maheru, Gurpreet Singh Peeta, 24, Ranjeet Singh Rana 25, Davinder Kaur of Khurshaidpur Colony in Nakodar and Kiran, 28, of Lamba Pind. Kiran works as a sanitation employee in Civil Hospital for the last seven years.
Commissioner of Police Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said that the accused were to sell the baby boy for around Rs four lakh and money was to be distributed among them equally.
"Preliminary interrogation of the accused revealed that on August 20 at 12.40pm, the accused Gurpreet Singh Gopi and Gurpreet Singh Peeta reached the rear side of the Civil Hospital in Bolero (PB08-CG-2473) and were in constantly in touch of three remaining accused Ranjeet, Davinder Kaur and Kiran on phone and later came inside “mother and child centre” of the hospital. Kiran picked up the baby boy from the ward and gave him to Gurpreet Singh Gopi and Gurpreet Singh Peeta near the stairs who then escaped in the Bolero immediately,” Bhullar said.
Commissioner of Police further added that both accused handed over the new-born baby boy to Davinder Kaur and Ranjeet Rana at Gandra-Pandori road. He said that as police had immediately launched the investigations and the officials worked on different clues, Gurpreet Singh Gopi was nabbed from his office while others were arrested from their houses. The new-born baby boy was safely recovered from a room where Ranjeet Rana and Davinder Kaur were living, he added.
He said that Davinder Kaur used to arrange the deals of egg donation by women for the families having no child. “The accused would be questioned further to know about involvement of more persons in this racket and to whom they were going to sell the new-born baby boy,” he said.
The baby was handed over to his mother in the Civil Hospital.
The accused have been identified as Gurpreet Singh Gopi, 22, panchayat member of Village Maheru, Gurpreet Singh Peeta, 24, Ranjeet Singh Rana 25, Davinder Kaur of Khurshaidpur Colony in Nakodar and Kiran, 28, of Lamba Pind. Kiran works as a sanitation employee in Civil Hospital for the last seven years.
Commissioner of Police Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said that the accused were to sell the baby boy for around Rs four lakh and money was to be distributed among them equally.
"Preliminary interrogation of the accused revealed that on August 20 at 12.40pm, the accused Gurpreet Singh Gopi and Gurpreet Singh Peeta reached the rear side of the Civil Hospital in Bolero (PB08-CG-2473) and were in constantly in touch of three remaining accused Ranjeet, Davinder Kaur and Kiran on phone and later came inside “mother and child centre” of the hospital. Kiran picked up the baby boy from the ward and gave him to Gurpreet Singh Gopi and Gurpreet Singh Peeta near the stairs who then escaped in the Bolero immediately,” Bhullar said.
Commissioner of Police further added that both accused handed over the new-born baby boy to Davinder Kaur and Ranjeet Rana at Gandra-Pandori road. He said that as police had immediately launched the investigations and the officials worked on different clues, Gurpreet Singh Gopi was nabbed from his office while others were arrested from their houses. The new-born baby boy was safely recovered from a room where Ranjeet Rana and Davinder Kaur were living, he added.
He said that Davinder Kaur used to arrange the deals of egg donation by women for the families having no child. “The accused would be questioned further to know about involvement of more persons in this racket and to whom they were going to sell the new-born baby boy,” he said.
The baby was handed over to his mother in the Civil Hospital.
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