new delhi three persons including two women were held on thursday for stealing a baby from deen dayal upadhyay ddu hospital we received a complaint on thursday that a newborn male child had gone missing shortly after deliverysaid robin hibu dcp west we rescued the child from indra park near dabri mor in southwest delhi and arrested the woman manju posing as his mother we have also arrested guriya who was attached to the hospital and mahavir who had stolen the baby from the hospitalhe addedon thursday a woman had complained to police that she had given birth to a healthy male baby but by the time she regained consciousness her child had gone missing after two days of questioning the sleuths managed to compile a list of six suspects including guriya guriya was not a member of the hospitals staff but functioned as an ayah finally guriya broke down and confessed she had helped mahavir slip inside the hospital premises unnoticed and steal the baby mahavir was also detained manju who lives in indra park with her husband and inlaws manju had instructed mahavir to steal a male baby for her on payment of rs 6000 of this amount rs 5000 had been paid in advancethe woman had apparently told her family that the child was her own and they were preparing to celebrate when the raid was conductedsaid a police officialinvestigations revealed that manjus husband and inlaws used to threaten divorce if she did not bear a male heir under pressure manju decided to arrangefor a child and tried to pass it off as her own