Sheetal and Ramesh Salvi, the parents of the five-day-old infant stolen from Nair hospital on Thursday evening, have V N Desai hospital nurse Bhakti Barve to thank for getting him back within 12 hours. Interestingly, it was a viral photo of the kidnapper forwarded on WhatsApp groups that helped Barve identify her when she reached the hospital for a check-up of the child.

The alert nurse immediately suggested a mandatory sonography of the woman, the results of which confirmed her suspicion that the woman had not given birth recently. She then got the infant admitted at the hospital and informed her seniors. The police who were later informed came to the hospital and arrested her.