Woman arrested with stolen newborn
Detectives yesterday arrested a woman with a stolen newborn baby boy in her Tikapara Bashar road house of Rajshahi city.
Shahin Aktar Suvra, 35, stole the baby from a healthcare centre in the city's Nawdapara area nine days ago in the guise of an NGO worker, police quoted her confession as saying.
Detectives said they identified Suvra by watching CCTV footages.
Suvra, wife of a government doctor and a mother of a five-year-old daughter, had a great expectation of a son, said Al Amin Hosain, an assistant commissioner of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police.
She had miscarriages in the last few years, he said, adding that Suvra stole the baby hours after he was born at the Urban Primary Health Care Centre on January 19.
Police also handed the baby over to his mother Mukti Khatun, wife of day labourer Nasir Uddin in the city's Char Shyampur.
Suvra came to know from a health worker of the healthcare centre, who was arrested earlier, that one Mukti was expected to give birth to a baby boy. On the day of delivery, Suvra and the worker took Mukti to the healthcare centre after offering her to bear the treatment cost, he said.
Suvra identified herself as NGO health worker, which created an opportunity to steal the baby, said the police official.
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