Five people have been arrested for allegedly kidnapping a 25-day-old baby boy from Maharashtra's Thane district to sell him, with the police rescuing the infant in Mumbai within four hours of the incident, an official said on Tuesday, reported the PTI.

The baby was allegedly snatched from a ragpicker in Ambernath town around 7 pm on October 10 by a speech-and hearing-impaired woman, who then handed him over to her associates as part of a plan to sell the child, senior inspector Shabbir Sayyed of Ambernath police station said, the news agency reported.