New Delhi, June 4 -- Three days after a six-month-old boy was kidnapped from Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) Hospital in east Delhi after his mother was lured there on the pretext of vaccination, police on Wednesday said they had arrested a 45-year-old woman who worked as a patient helper and rescued the infant safely from her custody.

The woman, identified as Bobby alias Kanchan, was arrested from a slum dwelling in Delhi's Shivaji Park near Punjabi Bagh following a raid conducted on Tuesday, police said. The kidnapping case was registered at GTB Enclave police station on May 31.

Joint Commissioner of Police (Eastern Range) Ajit Kumar Singla said Kanchan confessed that she kidnapped the child to present him to her family as her own son. She tol...