A 35-year-old woman from Delhi has been arrested for stealing the three-year-old child of a Borivli-based footpath dweller couple who had taken her in and let her live with them for three days. Cops said the accused, a beggar, committed the crime as she was in need of a child to increase her source of income. 

According to Borivli GRP officers, the accused woman and her daughters, aged 10 and 17, had arrived in Mumbai three days ago and befriended the couple who live outside Borivli station and lived with them before taking off with their kid on Friday night. After the toddler’s parents approached the police, cops started a search operation.