Pramesh S Jain & Dr.Thomas (Special Correspondent)
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n a swift action,the Kolar police have cracked a case of new born baby boy kidnap case and arrested a 35-year-old woman within six hours of kidnap.
A seven-year-old boy and an autorickshaw driver have played a major role in helping the police to crack the case in record time,which Chief minister Siddaramaiah himself congratulated the police team.
Senior officer told reporters,Inspector B Shankarachar, who investigated the case,said that Nandini,a 19-year-old woman was admitted to SNR distrcit hospital on October 21 and delivered a baby boy on the same day.
Since the baby had a health complication,it was admitted in ICU and handed over to the mother on Thursday.
Since the mother and her aunt who was her caretaker were exhausted they had a sound sleep keeping the baby on the bed.
The accused Shilpa Swathi,35,taking advantage of the situation ventured into the room and picked up the baby and concealed in the vanity bag and slipped away.
Meanwhile,Karthik,7,who was playing around noticed this and tried to wake up mother and aunt,but they were fast asleep.
Shilpa walked out of the hospital took the hired an autorickshaw belonging to Shivakumar,son of retired head constable to go to Alambadi gate on the same day.Shivakumar had demanded Rs.450 for which Shilpa paid him online and left..
Meanwhile after half hour Karthik managed to wake up the mother and aunt and narrated the ordeal.Shocked mother rushed out and found the woman was missing and complained ot the police.
Based on the complaint,Inspector Shankarachar and his team rushed to the hospital and found there no security guards but the police found CCTV and checked for the footage .
Karthik identified the woman following which they checked with other CCTV footage and alerted on social media about the woman.
At around 9.30 pm,Shivakumar returned home from work and checked social media to find the police alert about the women.
He rushed to Malur town and informed the police that he had dropped the women and even shared the number from where the payment was made to him.
Armed with the information,Shankarachar and team managed to track down the accused in Berikai town in Tamilnadu thorugh her mobile location and rescued the baby.
Shilpa told the police that her younger sister Shwetha, 32 from Tamilnadu was childless after abortion twice.
She was asking her to help to get a child to adopt, Shipla had promised her to get a new born baby and did it.
Though Shilpa claimed that it was her first attempt to steal the baby the police are further investigating to ascertain her background and possible involvement in crime.
Superintendent of police M Narayana appreciating the police work,said that he is recommending Karthik name for BAL SHOURYA PURASKAR and also felicitated Shivakumar for helping the police in the investigation.
