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Stolen baby still missing: Police arrest three hospital staff

From the Newspaper | Mohammad Asghar | 10 hours ago

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RAWALPINDI, Sept 19: Police investigating the theft of a newborn baby from Benazir Bhutto Hospital 10 days ago have arrested three hospital staff members for their possible link with the suspected kidnapper.
Deputy Superintendent of Police Jamil Baig of Waris Khan circle told Dawn on Wednesday that the three made bogus entries in the hospital records to admit a pregnant woman from Abbottabad who mysteriously disappeared the same time the baby did, raising suspicions against her.
“She came to the hospital on September 5 and gave her name as Shakeela. She was admitted in the maternity ward and vanished the same time the baby was found missing on September 10,” said the officer.
Close-circuit camera of the hospital caught her leaving with a woman who appeared to be carrying a wrapped-up baby.
Investigators think the carrier was an accomplice of Shakeela. Police teams are now hunting for the mysterious pregnant woman.
Help was sought from National Data Registration Authority to trace her out from her single name as her CNIC number, nor any other helpful data about her, appears in the hospital records.
Even her CCTV images were not very clear to the police investigators. An expert had to be called from Karachi to enhance the images to make the subject recognisable.
DSP Baig said the hospital staff, taken into custody on Wednesday after three days of interrogation, were believed to be connected with the kidnapping of the newborn baby.
“It was their responsibility to get complete particulars of the patient (the disappeared pregnant woman). That they failed to do that gave police a reason to think they may be involved in the crime,” said the officer.
A woman posing as hospital staff reportedly just picked up the baby from Bed 13 of Maternity Ward 5, telling his mother Aksa that she was taking him for vaccinations and vanished.
It was the first born of Aksa, 19, wife of Meharban Hussain of Kallar Syedian.
The couple has been seeking help of spiritual healers for recovering their baby.
Meharban said that he and his mother-in-law had been searching for the baby in make-shift tents in a katchi abadi at Pirwadhai where a spiritual healer said they will find the baby living with a woman.
“My mother-in-law can recognise the baby as she had been with him from his birth,” said the father, sounding hopeful that they will find him one day.