Baby Falak dies of cardiac arrest

March 16, 2012

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New Delhi, March 15: After battling for life at All India Institute of Medical Sciences for the past over 60 days, two-year-old battered baby Falak died late Thursday of cardiac arrest.

Baby Falak was brought to AIIMS Trauma Centre about two months ago with severe head injuries, broken arms, bite marks all over the body and cheeks branded with hot iron.

“It came as a sudden shock,” said Dr M C Misra, chief, AIIMS Trauma Centre. He said till afternoon she was doing fine. “At 7 pm, her heart rate started to go down. She had cardiac arrest at 9 pm. We tried to revive her, but in vain. At 9:40 pm she was declared dead,” said Dr Misra. The post-mortem will be conducted on Friday to detect the actual cause of death.

Baby Falak had two cardiac arrests in the first week of her admission in the Trauma Centre. Her survival after such post-trauma shock and subsequent recovery was termed as a miracle by doctors. Till Wednesday, she was expected to be discharged in a few days. “It is depressing and we are all taken aback,” said Dr Misra.

Falak was brought to AIIMS on January 18 by a teenage girl, who claimed to be her mother. She said the child got injuries as she fell in the bathroom. However, the nature of her injuries created suspicion among doctors.

Doctors found she was subjected to battered baby syndrome in which injuries are inflicted on children’s bodies by someone close to them. The teenager herself was found to be the one who gave Falak the injuries.

She was charged with section 308 of the Indian Penal Code (attempt to commit culpable homicide). With Falak’s death, the charge will be converted to 304 A (causing death by negligence).

The case of Falak had caught imagination of the entire nation. Scores of people from India and abroad had sent requests to the hospital for her adoption. She had developed acute sepsis due to which her brain fluid and blood were badly infected. In less than two months she had five surgeries.

Over the past 10 days her tests showed negative results for infections, giving hope for her reasonable recovery. Despite a broken skull, doctors were hopeful she will not have to live life in a vegetative state.

On Februray 15, Falak was reunited with her 22-year-old mother Munni, who was married to a man in Rajasthan.

Investigations revealed the shocking story of Falak, her two siblings and their mother who were all separated after falling victim to human traffickers.

Munni was tricked into a second marriage by three women out of whom two — Laxmi and Kanta Choudhry — were arrested by the Delhi Police. The trio had promised that her three children will be taken care of but they were left to different people.

Ten people were arrested in the case. The police traced Falak’s five-year-old brother from the house of a vendor in West Delhi’s Uttam Nagar locality while her sister Sanobar was traced by the Delhi Police to Muzaffarpur in Bihar.

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January 9,2020

Bareilly, Jan 9: In a bizarre development, a woman has been arrested for inflicting 101 cuts on her sister-in-law in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district, the police said on Thursday.

The woman was practicing exorcism to cure her father who had been ailing for some time.

The woman, Moni, was helped by her husband Mooli and brother Raju in the act, which happened on Tuesday.

The sister-in-law Renu who suffered the cuts, was given 300 stitches on her face and other parts of the body by the doctors.

Renu has been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) where her condition is said to be serious.

Moni, 30, has been sent to jail while Mooli and Raju are absconding.

Baradari police station officer inspector Naresh Tyagi said that a complaint had been filed by Renu's brother under section 307 (attempt to murder) of IPC.

"We will record Renu's statements in a day or two once she is stable and in a condition to talk to us. We have sent Moni to jail," the inspector said.

Renu, a resident of Ganghora village in Bareilly, was married to Sanjeev around eight years ago.

Her father-in-law, Jagdish, fell ill a few months ago.

"Accused Moni, who practices exorcism, decided to cure her father by initiating the act. Going by superstitious beliefs, they inflicted as many as 101 cuts on Renu's face and body. It cannot be ruled out that they wanted to sacrifice her to complete the act," police inspector said.

On Tuesday night, the accused had locked Renu's husband and mother-in-law in another room when they tried to stop them from making her a scapegoat.

When the accused trio started inflicting cuts on Renu, she struggled to get out of their clutches and somehow managed to escape from the house.

She had run a short distance when she collapsed and became unconscious. A police constable on patrol reportedly spotted her and she was taken to a district hospital. Once regaining her consciousness, she narrated her ordeal to the police who then informed her parents.

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May 14,2020

Six migrant workers have been killed and five others seriously injured when a speeding bus ran over them on the Delhi-Saharanpur Highway near in Muzaffarnagar, officials said on Thursday.

The accused driver, who was suspected to be under the influence of alcohol, has been arrested, said SSP Abhishek Yadav.

The workers were going on foot to their homes in Bihar from Haryana when they were hit on the Delhi-Saharanpur Highway between Ghalili Check Post and Rohana Toll Plaza, about 20 km from here late last night, the official said.

The injured -- Sushil, Nathu Saini, Pawan Saini, Pramod and Ramji Rai --were rushed to hospital.

Two of the deceased were identified as Bijender, 25, and Harsh, 20. The rest were yet to be identified.

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February 11,2020

Mumbai, Feb 11: A 65-year-old woman was allegedly killed by her husband over debt and illness in suburban Powai here, police said on Tuesday.

The incident came to light when Sheela Ajit Lad was found dead by her neighbours at Sukh Shanti Co-operative Society at around 9.30 pm on Monday, an official said.

The victim was allegedly killed by her husband Ajit Lad, who hit her on the head with a heavy object, slit her wrists and strangled her to death, he said.

The accused absconded at around 7.30 pm, leaving a note at the crime scene, saying he was going to commit suicide and had killed his wife because he was heavily in debt and she was suffering from an ailment, the official said.

The childless couple lived alone in the apartment, he added.

"On the basis of the note, we have registered a case of murder against Ajit Lad and have launched a manhunt for him. We have not traced him or found his body as he had mentioned suicide in the note," deputy commissioner of police (DCP) Zone X Ankit Goyal said.

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