Panchkula, Feb. 21 -- A mystery man kidnapped a five-day-old baby from the Panchkula civil hospital after deceiving his parents with offers of "support and guidance" through hospital procedures, police said on Friday.

Having registered a case, Panchkula police have launched a manhunt to trace the kidnapper and rescue the newborn. Police were alerted by the infant's parents who live in Pipliwala Town in Manimajra and hail from Amethi in Uttar Pradesh.

The infant's mother, Suman, narrated that she had delivered a baby on February 15. On February 19, she and her husband brought their five-day-old son to the civil hospital in Manimajra, Chandigarh, for a medical check-up.

The doctor on duty diagnosed her son with jaundice and advised hospi...