Date:22/01/2005 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2005/01/22/stories/2005012216100500.htm

Andhra Pradesh

Hunt on for baby-girl's abductor

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, JAN. 21. Hunt is on for the unidentified burqa-clad woman who had allegedly kidnapped a newborn baby-girl from the latter's grandmother at Khairatabad MCH office on Thursday.

The Saifabad police had examined the watchman, parking lot workers and health inspector of the Government Maternity Hospital, Nayapool, where the baby was born. However, all of them told the police that they did not see any woman moving under suspicious circumstances on the hospital premises in the past few days.

No clue

The Sub-Inspector, T. Madhu Mohan, had also spoken to the baby's mother, Peerma Bee, at her house in Talabkatta. Oirginally a native of Nanded in Maharashtra, Peerma Bee had come to Hyderabad for delivery. Neither Peerma Bee nor her mother, Mahbooba Bee, from whom the baby-girl was taken away, had seen the face of the anonymous woman.

"This has closed doors for preparing portrait parley of the suspected woman," the police said. Two years ago, two women were picked up by the security personnel of the Nayapur Maternity Hospital while they were taking away a newborn baby-girl. The two women were subsequently convicted by the court.

Police are trying to find out if anyone connected to the two women was involved in the baby-girl's abduction on Thursday.