HYDERABAD, Sept 18: Accused Safya Parveen recorded her confessional statement under section 164 Cr.PC before Civil Judge and Judicial Magistrate-X Hyderabad here on Tuesday, admitting that she had kidnapped three day-old baby girl Dua from Bhittai Hospital and had sold her to one Amna alias Maria.

She was brought to the court by the investigation police. The magistrate remanded her to judicial custody.

The co-accused, including Safya’s sister Kausar Parveen, husband Javed Iqbal, Nasir Abbas, Sharif and Nasir were remanded to police custody for three days.

Safya said that she had arrived in Hyderabad along with Amna alias Maria. She stayed in the hospital’s paediatrics ward and gained confidence of women in the ward. She said that when Feroza, mother of baby girl Dua, went to lavatory she took away baby and handed her over to Maria. Then, she said, they left for Karachi in a coach.

Since police are under pressure of Supreme Court, the SP investigation produced the woman before media prior to recording her confessional statement before the judicial magistrate to ease the pressure. Safia had already made such statement before the media.

A team of Hyderabad policemen is in Karachi to arrest Amna, who is known by seven different names.

It is learnt that SHO Hussainabad police station Khalid Iqbal has survived a heart attack during investigation as he had been under stress since last month after Supreme Court took notice of the case.

The Sindh Inspector General of Police is directly supervising the case following directives by the apex court. The baby girl was kidnapped on August 19 after she was born to Feroza on August 16.

KILLED: A man, Abdul Wahid, was gunned down in the jurisdiction of Site police station here on Tuesday by an unidentified assailant.