Four persons including a woman were arrested from Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh for allegedly kidnapping a nine-month-old girl from a government hospital here, police said today.
Police arrested Divya Joythi, Ravi, Kalyan and Sanjeevaiah and rescued the baby Kavya from Alugonda village of Veldurthy mandal in Kurnool district, they said.
On the intervening night of July 31 and August 1, the four accused had kidnapped Kavya from her mother B Renuka while the latter was asleep in the visitors shed of the hospital and fled to Kurnool, a release from Hyderabad Police said.
The woman lodged a complaint after which a case was booked by Chilkalguda police and subsequently the accused were arrested, it said.
