January 29, 2008	Tuesday	Muharram 19, 1429

RAWALPINDI, Jan 28; Police on Monday claimed to have recovered one of the two newborn babies stolen from a local hospital.

However, one of the fathers laid the condition of DNA test to ascertain the paternity of the infant.

An interesting situation emerged at the press conference of the CPO Rawalpindi Saud Aziz when Tariq Mehmood, the father of one of the abducted newborn babies appeared and refused to accept the baby.

“I cannot accept the baby without a DNA test and secondly, the mother of the other stolen baby has been claiming that it was her baby,” Tariq Mehmood told Dawn.

Tariq Mehmood’s newborn baby was stolen from the Holy Family Hospital on December 9, by a woman posing herself as ‘aunt’ of the baby came there and asked baby’s mother that she was taking her baby to nursery to get him examined by a lady doctor. She took the baby from his mother and disappeared.

The City Police Officer Rawalpindi Saud Aziz told media persons that a police team headed by SP Khuram Shahzad was formed to trace out the stolen baby. The CPO said in the light of intelligence report, a woman who got married some seven year ago and had been keeping a baby. The police team raided her house in Muslimabad Pirwadhai and captured Ms Rehana and her husband Mohammad Adeel and also recovered the baby.

The CPO said during preliminary investigation, Ms Rehana Bibi disclosed that her sister had given birth to a twin and she adopted one of them.

The CPO said later she confessed that his mother-in-law Riffat Bibi had kidnapped the baby from HFH on December 9 and took him to her house. He said Ms Rehana had claimed that she purchased the baby for Rs5000.

During the press conference, Tariq Mehmood the husband of Najma Bibi appeared on the scene and refused to take the baby saying that he cannot accept it because another woman victim, wife of Gul Mohammad has been claiming that it was her missing baby. Gul Mohammad’s newborn baby was stolen from the HFH on January 7, 2008.