A case has been registered against a young woman for abandoning a new-born baby in a KSRTC bus here on Tuesday.
Raziya Shinaf, 22, of Kunnappallil house, Endayar near Mundakkayam, has been admitted to a private hospital here. The conductor of the bus that arrived from Kumily found a baby boy abandoned beneath the seats at around 7.30 am. The employees at KSRTC depot handed the baby over to the district hospital.
The baby was put under the custody of the child welfare committee (CWC), Kottayam unit. The police identified Raziya by making a call to the mobile phone found along with the baby under the bus seat.
According to the police, Raziya, wife of Shinaf who is working abroad, came to Kottayam for the treatment of a lump in her stomach, along with her mother and in-laws. She delivered the baby in the bus and fled the scene with her kin.
“Raziya’s health condition is stable. We registered a case against her for abandoning the baby under 317 of IPC (Exposure and abandonment of child under twelve years, by parent or person having care of it),” said Tomy Sebastian of West police station in Kottayam. She will be arrested once she is discharged from the hospital, he said.
CWC district secretary M.S. Soman said the committee would look into the matter.
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Doctor held for foetus sex test
GAUTAM S. MENGLE
MUMBAI, JUNE 5
The director of a well-known Ahmednagar Hospital was caught in the act of conducting illegal sex determination test, and will now face court proceedings, even as the state is still reeling from the massive female foeticide racket recently uncovered in Beed.
According to official sources, tehsildar Rajendra Wagh of the Rahuri tehsil in Ahmednagar received information on Monday that Dr Jawahar Bhandari, who has been running the Bhandari Hospital in Rahuri for several years, has been conducting illegal sex determination tests.
Acting on the information, Mr Wagh sent a dummy patient, and she was told that the standard rate for sex determination was `30,000.