A 38-year-old married woman from Maharashtra’s Palghar district allegedly abducted her three-month-old nephew to deceive her paramour into believing that the baby was theirs, in an attempt to start a new life with him, police said on Tuesday.

According to PTI, the woman took the infant from Mandvi in Vasai under the pretext of an outing on February 18 but later fled to Nalanda in Bihar. Following an extensive investigation, police successfully rescued the child and arrested the accused on Sunday.