Newborn theft in Kolkata hospital: Police release suspect's photo, offer Rs. 1 lakh reward to find her

"We have received a CCTV footage from Kolkata Metro Rail, where it was seen that a middle-aged lady, wearing green saree and holding a baby in her lap, boarded a Kavi Subhas bound train from Central metro station, which is very close to Calcutta Medical College and Hospital," Joint CP (Crime) of Kolkata Police, Vishal Garg, told IBNS.

"Besides examining the CCTV footage of all intermediate stations between Central and Kavi Subhas, we have announced a reward of 1 lakh rupees to find the woman," Garg further said.

Earlier in the afternoon, a young woman from city's Bagmari area alleged that a woman, who introduced herself as an attendant, had stolen her baby son, who was born on last Friday (Mar 10) from the hospital's Eden Building in broad daylight.

Nearly 26-year-old Saraswati Naskar, whose baby son has gone missing, told IBNS, "A middle-aged woman, wearing green coloured saree, took me and my child for check up and directed me to bring a blood test's report from my bed."

"Few minutes later, when I returned with blood test reports, I found neither that woman nor my baby," she further said.

Following the incident, Saraswati's family members demonstrated at the hospital and when policemen reached there, they engaged in a scuffle with the cops.

Later a heavy police force deployed to the spot to bring the situation under control.

The patient party has lodged complaint of child theft at Bowbazar Police Station nearby and before the hospital authority.

However, superintendent of Calcutta Medical College and Hospital, Shikha Banerjee, told IBNS that she had informed the state health department about the incident, while no reaction has been received from the health department officials yet.

(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)