Two children kidnapped from Delhi hospitals

New Delhi: Two children, a one-and-half-year-old boy and a six-month-old male infant, were allegedly kidnapped from two state-run hospitals in the capital, the police said Thursday.

According to the police, six-month-old Rahul was taken away from west Delhi's Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Hospital Thursday afternoon after his aunt Reena unsuspectingly left him with an unidentified woman in a park in the hospital complex.

"I had come to the hospital with my sons Lale, 4, and Rahul and my sister Reena for my elder son's treatment," Rahul's mother Kiran Devi, 27, said in a police complaint.

"We all were waiting in a queue outside the x-ray department. So, I asked my younger sister, Reena, to take Rahul with her and relax in the park area.

"They both went on my request, but after some time Reena returned to me asking for something and left the child with a woman, with whom she was chitchatting in the park area. When we went back to take my son, the woman was not there and had escaped with the child," said Kiran, who lives in a nearby slum colony.

Reena told the police: "The woman became very friendly to me in a few minutes and asked me to call my sister as well. She said I could leave the child with her for the time being. I then went to call my sister at the x-ray department but when we returned, the woman had already gone."

A case of kidnapping was registered at the Hari Nagar police station and a sketch of the woman was being prepared.

"We have launched investigations and are gathering details of people arrested in the past on similar charges," said a police official.

On Wednesday, one-and-a-half-year-old Saba was allegedly kidnapped from the premises of the Babu Jagjivan Ram Hospital in northwest Delhi.

The police said Saba was found missing in the afternoon after his mother Farida left him sleeping outside the out-patients department (OPD) of the hospital.

Farida in her complaint said: "After leaving my son outside, I went for a medical examination in the OPD. After 10 minutes I returned only to see my son missing. I along with some other people searched the entire hospital premises, but failed to find him."

A case of kidnapping was registered at the Jahangirpuri police station.

Efforts were on to trace the two children who could not be found till late Thursday.