KARACHI, Feb 5: Police on Tuesday recovered in Tando Allahyar a child who had been kidnapped from the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital last week.

West Zone SSP investigation Noman Siddiqui told Dawn that the 15-day-old child was recovered when the police arrested the purported father, Mohammad Amjad, adding that he lived in Tando Allahyar with his wife Urooj.

He said that the police tracked the suspects from their cellphones, he said.

He said that Urooj had been married before and had a daughter from her earlier marriage. After the death of her first husband, he said, she married Amjad.

However, said SSP Siddiqui, Urooj underwent several miscarriages during three years of marriage. Recently, when she was seven months pregnant she told Amjad that she was going to Karachi to stay with her daughter who lives here in a hostel.

After she suffered a miscarriage again, without the knowledge of her husband Urooj kept visiting various hospitals to seek an opportunity to steal a child. He said Urooj finally  stole a newborn baby and brought him home to Tando Allahyar.

Her family had named the child as Abdul Hadee.