The police arrested a woman accused of stealing a new born boy from the Government Hospital in Athani on Wednesday.
Members of a family from Ainapur village complained to the police saying that their infant was kidnapped by a person claiming to be a nurse in the taluk hospital.
The accused took away the new born baby saying that it has to weighed. The nurse was wearing an apron on a red dress and also a face mask. She asked the infant’s mother, who was feeling sleepy, whether she had received the Taayi card that enables her to get government benefits and what was the weight of the baby.
