Assistant police inspector C M Pandit of the Naupada police station said that one Sunita Jaiswal (45) was sleeping on the pavement near Chintaman Jewellers at Jambli Naka last night, when the alleged child lifter approached her.
The woman who took away the child from the mother at night and was never to be seen.
Meanwhile, the mother lodged a complaint with the Naupada police which registered an offence under Section 353 of the Indian Penal Code and managed to locate the child lifter and the abducted child.
The child lifter has been identified as 'Poonam' and the police is trying to find out if she had abducted any other child in the past.