Baby thief caught red handed at DMCH

The Dhaka Medical College Hospital staff and patients' visitors beat up and handed over to police a man as he tried to snatch an eight-month-old baby girl from an aya (ward assistant) on Tuesday night.

Abu Bakar Siddique, officer-in-charge (OC) of Shahbagh Police Station, told The Daily Star that the detainee, Shahajuddin, 35, might have lost mental balance.

He said they would verify the information they got from locals. No case was filed till last evening.

Ahsan Ullah Biswas, 50, of Keraniganj, father of the girl Khadizatul Kubra, was admitted to the surgery ward on the ground floor of the hospital on March 9, the OC said.

The aya, Rehana, 60, said Shahajuddin held the hands of the baby and tried, in vain, to snatch her when her mother took Biswas to a toilet.

Abu Bakar said at that time people rushed in and asked Shahajuddin whether he was trying to steal the baby. Later, he confessed to doing so, he added.