Mother gets back her kidnapped son after 42 days, 1 woman held

Vadodara, June 23 (UNI) Twenty five-year-old Dipika Parmar, who had lost all hope of getting back her eight-day-old kidnapped son, was reunited with her baby after a gap of 42 days, thanks to an alert city police constable.

Dipika was handed over her baby at Junagadh yesterday, after a police team from Vadodara rescued the infant from his kidnapper Bhavna Parmar, following a raid on her Dhari Gundali residence in Junagadh district.

Police arrested Bhavna (40) from her second husband's house where she had kept the child after kidnapping him from Anand collectorate on May 12 by giving a slip to the baby's mother and her mother-in-law.

Preliminary interrogation of Bhavna revealed that her first husband and their two children based in Vadodara deserted her because of her extra-marital affairs and she had come to the city to pick-up a baby from the civil hospital here, police said.

Posing herself as a social worker, Bhavna was successful in kidnapping the new born baby after she lured the baby's poor mother Dipika and her mother-in-law Laxmi from the civil hospital to Anand collectorate with a false promise of providing them a government grant of Rs 5,000 for the delivery.

Dipika, a resident of Dumad village in Savli taluka, had delivered the baby boy at the same hospital on May four.

The kidnapping case which was registered with the Anand police, was later transferred to Vadodara's Raopura police station, and police released a sketch of the accused having a golden tooth as per the description given by Dipika.

Incidentally constable Arvind over heard a group of 3 women discussing about the kidnapping of the baby while travelling with them in an auto-rickshaw. On interrogation, the trio, who were said to be old friends of the accused, disclosed the whereabouts of Bhavna.

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