Swift action by the JJ Marg police helped to reunite a young mother with her nine-month-old infant in less than 24 hours after the child was kidnapped during the Eid-e-Milad festival on the evening of November 21.

An officer said the complainant, Govandi resident Nasreen Habibullah Khan, 26, had come to south Mumbai for the festival along with her baby and family. The family sat outside a local mosque, watching the procession was pass by. Nasreen was approached by a woman - later identified as Nashida Mansoori, 25 - who asked to play with the baby.