The DNA test planned to verify the woman’s claim to the child

Ammathottil at Government General Hospital, Kozhikode. | Photo credit: K. Ragesh

Authorities are planning to conduct a DNA test on the Kozhikode woman who filed for custody of the baby found in the Ammathottil electronic cradle installed at the Kozhikode Government General Hospital on March 12.

According to official sources, the baby was eight days old when it was found in the cradle. He was later named ‘Aarav’.

However, sources citing a woman who claimed to be his mother said that she could not bear to be separated from her child for more than one and a half months.

She soon contacted the officials of the Committee for the Protection of Children (CWC) and applied for the child’s return. Although official roadblocks followed, the provision that parents could reclaim their child within 60 days of placement in Ammathottil saved her.

She later met officials at the District Collectorate.

After that, the CWC officials forwarded her application to the Kerala State Child Welfare Board, which maintains the cradle.

Sources said the police will now conduct an inquiry based on her request and test her DNA samples to verify her claims.

Published – 07 June 2026 19:40 IST