Margao police arrested a 50-year-old woman identified as Nataline Almeida for kidnapping a two-month-old infant from a couple residing on a footpath near the Margao railway station.
Initially offering food to the couple, the accused later coerced them to surrender their daughter, even proposing a substantial sum of Rs 4 lakh, which the couple refused. Frustrated by their denial, the accused secretly abducted the baby while the mother and child were asleep near the station road two days prior, the police said .
Following a search, the police located the woman in Navelim with the baby in her possession. She was subsequently brought in for questioning, and the baby was safely returned to her mother.
