Delhi Police said Tuesday that Munni wanted custody of Falak, but this will be decided by a child welfare committee.

"Munni, who is the mother of Falak, wants her custody but she will be given custody only after she (the baby) recovers, and with the approval of the child welfare committee," Deputy Commissioner of Police Chhaya Sharma said at a press conference.

Though police have confirmed Munni as Falak's mother, they have not done a DNA test to prove the relationship.

Doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) who have been treating baby Falak for over two weeks said Tuesday there is a 30-40 percent chance that the child may remain in a vegetative state for the rest of her life.

She was admitted to AIIMS Jan 18 with a fractured skull, bruises and human bite marks all over her body. A teenager, claiming to be her mother, admitted her to the hospital.

Meanwhile, police traced Falak's sister, who is a year and a half older, in Bihar and brought her to Delhi. The girl was reunited with Munni, while her another child, a son, is still missing.

Falak's sister had been kept at the house of some people in Muzaffarpur in Bihar.

According to police, Laxmi, a woman now under arrest, had befriended Munni and persuaded her to leave her abusive husband and re-marry. She had arranged for a second husband for the 22-year-old Munni, and also kept her three children with herself and subsequently gave them away.

Falak's sister, identified as Sanobar, was kept by Laxmi at the house of a relative in Muzaffarpur when Munni was brought to Delhi in September. But Laxmi's relatives gave the girl away to a neighbour.

According to police, Laxmi appears to have had a central role in separating the three children and police are investigating a child trafficking angle in the case.

The police identified Falak's sister through an MMS received from a special Delhi Police team in Muzaffarpur. The picture of Falak's sister was shown to her mother, Munni, who confirmed her identity.

Sanobar was brought to the capital Monday night, and she and Munni were presented Tuesdat before the Child Welfare Committee, which handed over the girl to Munni.

Both have been sent to the Nari Niketan, a women's shelter in west Delhi.

Meanwhile, Kanta Choudhary who convinced Munni to leave her first husband, Mohammed Shah Hussain, a criminal, to marry again, revealed that she has arranged such marriages earlier too.

According to police, she was involved in arranging five such marriages earlier.

"We are searching for two people in the case - the five-year-old son of Munni and Rajkumar (the male friend of the teen-aged girl who brought Falak to AIIMS) who is still absconding," Sharma told reporters here.

The police are also interrogating 60-year-old woman Pratima and Manoj, 55, who were detained by police Monday.

The duo had allegedly got Falak from Laxmi and given the child to Rajkumar who in turn handed her over to a 14-year-old girl whom he allegedly sexually abused.

The girl admitted Falak to AIIMS Jan 18.

The police said Munni was repenting her decision to abandon her children.

"She is full of remorse and is crying a lot over Falak's condition. After getting her second daughter, she was a little relieved, but she is worried for her missing five-year-old son."

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