The Agripada police, who tracked the woman who kidnapped a newborn boy from Nair Hospital on Thursday, said she had been pretending to be pregnant for the last seven months. The woman, identified as Hazel Correa, was arrested from V N Desai hospital in Santacruz on Friday morning.

The Virar resident told the police officials that she had picked up the infant from Ward no. 7 of Nair hospital on Thursday evening while his mother, Sheetal Salvi, was asleep. "The woman first chit-chatted with the other patients and while talking she spotted Sheetal and her baby asleep," an officer from Agripada police station said.