A baby, stolen from a Jessore hospital, has been returned to his parents after being recovered from a bus stand in Magura on Monday, police said.
The baby, aged eight days, was stolen from Jessore Children's Hospital on Sunday.
"We recovered the baby from the Shimakhali bus stand area in Magura around 12pm after being alerted by a woman commuter," said Bisharul Islam, officer-in-charge of Shalikha police station in Magura.
“A woman got on a Shotokhali village-bound bus from Jessore with the baby. As the bus stopped at the Shimakhali bus stand, she requested another female commuter to take care of the baby while the former got off on the pretext of getting some water for him,” said the OC.
When the woman did not return, the commuter informed the cops.
“The baby was later handed over to the Jessore police and eventually returned to his parents, Mahdi Hasan and Asma Khatun, residents of the Kaliganj municipal area in Jhenaidah district," said OC Bisharul.
However, no one has been arrested in connection with the crime, said OC Bisharul.
On February 27, Asma gave birth to the baby boy at Jessore Children's Hospital and he was stolen a week later from the medical facility allegedly by a woman.
