October 07, 2006	Saturday	Ramazan 13, 1427

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PESHAWAR, Oct 6: A two-day old boy, who was allegedly kidnapped by a midwife from the Khyber Teaching Hospital, was returned to his parents by an issueless couple on Friday.

According to police, midwife Fazilat allegedly kidnapped the baby soon after the baby was born to wife of a local teacher under the pretext of weighing him for the hospital record, these sources said.

According to sources, Fazilat worked at a private clinic in the Nasirabgh area. But she frequently visited the KTH along with some women patients, the sources said.

The baby’s father told police about his suspicion of the midwife’s involvement in his son’s kidnapping and the police raided her house and arrested her husband Ashraf and son Safirullah.

Police said that Fazilat had ‘sold’ the baby for Rs30,000 to an issueless couple. The couple contacted the University Town police as soon as it learnt that the baby had been kidnapped.

On Friday, the police returned the infant to his father at the court of judicial magistrate Iftikhar.

Police officials declined to reveal the identity of the issueless couple but sources said that they lived in Hayatabad.

The couple said that they had got the baby in Dargai area. The Risalpur police were conducting raids to arrest the midwife.

This is the second such incident from the city’s hospitals. On June 28 this year, another baby had been kidnapped from the Lady Reading Hospital and there were no clues about his whereabouts or the criminals involved in his kidnapping.