Mother yearns for her missing baby

HYDERABAD: "I want my son back," cries Shiva Kanya Chalak to anyone who stops by to share her pain. Her baby boy was stolen on Saturday evening from the premises of the Niloufer hospital, Red Hills, by two unidentified women.
"He has a red mark on his lower lip and a pimple on his right cheek."
Five-month-old Arjun Kumar, who was admitted to the hospital with a severe cold a week ago, was abducted from the hospital''s dormitory by two women when his mother went out to bring some food.
Shiva Kanya, a native of Maharashtra, came to the city last month after her husband, Rajesh Kumar Naidu, had deserted her. She has been living at a hostel in Shamsheergunj.
"I thought my son would be my strength after my husband left me. I used to play with him and forget all my problems."
Shiva Kanya told police she suspected two women, who had been coming to the hospital since Friday claiming to be attendants of a patient. "I never expected that the two women would take away my son. I have no enmity with them," she said.
Nampally police said they are making efforts to identify the two women. "Two teams have been formed to trace the boy. We''re also identifying gangs which gained notoriety in abducting children," Saifabad assistant commissioner of police C Ramesh Kumar said.
Police are also looking for a woman, who kidnapped a newborn baby girl at the MCH office, Khairatabad from her grandmother Mahabuba Bee on Jan. 20.
Police inquiries revealed that women thieves were involved in five cases of child abduction reported at government hospitals in the city so far. Of these five cases, police have solved three.