Newborn stolen from Dhanbad medical college found, two held

Sindri: Acting swiftly on the basis of the CCTV footage, police have found the newborn baby who was stolen from SNMMCH, Dhanbad on Tuesday afternoon, police said on Thursday.
Saraidhela police found the newborn from Barwadih Tali Bangla Hari Mandir locality of Rajganj under Rajganj police station of the district on Wednesday night. The two women involved in the crime were identified as Kajal Devi and her mother Teziya Devi. Both have been arrested and booked for kidnapping.
Talking to TOI, the inspector in-charge of Saraidhela police station, Kishore Tirkey, said the police team, under the leadership of ASP (law and order) Manoj Swargiyari, tried to identify the women involved in the crime and zeroed in on the vehicle that was used in transporting the baby on the basis of the statement of hospital staff and others present outside the hospital when the baby was transported in the vehicle. “Around 9.30 pm, the police team raided one Tanu Mahto’s house and found the baby there. The two women accused were arrested from there and police also recovered the clothes they were wearing during the kidnapping of the baby,” he said.
The arrested women were first taken to Rajganj police station where senior police officials interrogated them. “They confessed to the crime and said that they did it because they wanted a son,” Tirkey said. TNN