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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May 25,2020

Hyderabad, May 25: Indicating foul play in the death of nine people, including six of a family, whose bodies were fished out from a well near Warangal, a forensic expert on Sunday virtually ruled out suicide theory, saying it appeared seven of them had been dragged and thrown into the water body.

Mystery shrouded the death of nine people, including six of a family, whose bodies were found in a well, five of them on Friday and four on Thursday, on the outskirts of Warangal in Telangana.

Police stepped up the probe and forensic analysis was also underway in the case.

The forensic expert, who visited the crime scene as part of the investigation citing preliminary tests, said that the seven of nine people had scratch injuries and appeared to have been "dragged" and "thrown" into the well.

Forensic reports are expected in 10 days, the forensic expert told media on Sunday adding after examining the crime scene it appears that the deaths were not suicides.

"We have preserved all organs and the same were sent to forensic science laboratory (FSL) for examination... some two or three persons might have been involved in the crime. There are scratch injuries on the bodies," he said.

"It appears that they were thrown into the water... There were no injuries on the child's body. We are awaiting the forensic report (to ascertain) whether they were poisoned. It didn't appear as if they committed suicide," the expert, who performed the post-mortem said.

Police sources said at least two people were picked up for questioning.

Bodies of the head of the family, wife, daughter and three-year old grandson were found floating and fished out on Thursday.

On Friday morning, some bodies were seen floating following which police pumped out the water from the well and found others.

The 48-year old man had migrated from West Bengal over 20 years ago and had settled down here. His family had been staying in two rooms on the premises of the unit, police had earlier said.

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March 26,2020

Puducherry,Mar 26: Congress legislator from Kamaraj Nagar constituency John Kumar has been booked on charges of violating lock-down rules, Lt Governor Kiran Bedi said on Thursday.

In a Whats app posting she further said that an FIR has been registered under the Disaster management Act.

She stated John Kumar in an irresponsible manner allowed more than 200 people to gather outside his house and distributed doles personally when lock down was enforced in the country.

A criminal case has been registered against him for blatant violation of law despite mass information and media messages.Instead of following the law, he chose to violate it,she further stated.

The LG added that as per the ground report by IGP Surendra Yadav, there was perceptible improvement in enforcement of lock down and public were aware and cooperative.Vehicles carrying essential supplies and personnel were moving and every day is an improvement.

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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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