A 24-year-old woman wearing white-coat caught red-handed as she tried to flee with a one-day-old baby boy from the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital Nursery Ward, police said on Thursday.
Women police investigators are grilling Zainab Hashim to ascertain whether she acted alone or she is part of a gang.
The resident Ravi Road landed in the hospital Thursday afternoon and entered the nursery ward from where she picked the son of Muhammad Irfan, a resident of Harbanspura. His delivered the boy in the morning, police said.
The accused told the toddler’s mother that the boy needed vaccination and she would take him to the other room.
She was caught by one of the attendants, who went after her, when she attempted to escape. The hospital administration called in the police and handed over the accused to them.
The police have registered a case against the lady on the charges of abduction. The accused would be produced before the court on Friday morning, police said.