Vidya Nilesh Sutar, a 22-year-old who gave birth to a baby boy two days ago at the Sane Guruji hospital in Hadapsar, received a rude shock in the wee hours yesterday when she woke up to find her newborn missing from the cradle. The police said an unidentified woman had come to her room in the hospital at 4.40 am and stolen the baby.

The police recovered CCTV footage from the hospital in which a woman wearing saree is seen taking the baby away in a plastic bag from the hospital at 4.45 am.u00a0The police said they were looking at the footage carefully in a bid to ascertain the identity of the woman who stole the infant. “My wife had delivered a baby boy on Saturday,” Vidya’s husband Nilesh said. “As she had some medical complication, the doctors suggested we keep her in the hospital for some more days.”