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The Hindu
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Staff Reporter

UNCOVERED: Stolen infant found koduvayur couple held | History Defined

Police arrested a couple from Koduvayur near here on Monday, and recovered from them a newborn baby stolen from the General Hospital at Pollachi.

The four-day-old girl given birth by Divya Bharati was missing from the General Hospital at Pollachi since Sunday morning. Tamil Nadu police had formed 12 teams to investigate the case.

Police rounded up Shamna and her husband Manikandan in connection with the infant theft. Shamna had stolen the baby to convince her husband’s family that it was hers. It was the timely intervention of an ASHA worker that helped the police detect the missing baby.

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