Overview
- Delhi Police traced a three-day-old boy to the Delhi–Meerut Expressway within hours of a PCR call and arrested a 40-year-old woman and Ahibaran Saxena, 20.
- Investigators say the Rohini suspect had frequented the ward and gained the mother's trust before taking the child around 5 am; an FIR under BNS Section 137(2) was filed.
- In Ludhiana, police arrested five women after an alleged Rs 2.10 lakh sale of a girl born on February 13, including the mother, a BAMS doctor named Manmeet Kaur, and buyer Mandeep Kaur.
- The Punjab handover was intercepted at a park near Gurdwara Chhevin Patshahi when a passerby alerted police, and the infant was placed in protective care.
- Probes continue into possible accomplices and hospital roles, with three Ludhiana suspects—an ASHA worker, a private nurse, and an associate—still absconding.