ISLAMABAD, July 20: Police have arrested a woman for stealing a newborn from Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) and sent her to Adiala Jail on judicial remand.

Police said the woman was caught red-handed by a woman security guard at the exit gate of Mother and Child Hospital while she was leaving the hospital building in a suspicious manner.

The security guard immediately called her in-charge and senior administration officer who came there and started interrogating the woman. She told them that she had committed the crime to save her marriage as she could not bear child, her husband had warned her of divorce.

The hospital administration called her husband and Margalla police. During interrogation her husband told police that he had three children from his wife and had no idea why his wife had stolen the baby.

On the other hand, the woman said that she did have three children but from her first husband and after separation from him she tied the knot with her present husband from whom she had no child. The police took her in their custody and registered a case against her on the charge of staling baby.

Later she was produced in the court of law from where she was sent to Adiala jail on 14 days judicial remand.