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 20,2020

Ahmedabad, Jan 20: Cops in Gandhinagar fell in a catch-22 situation when a state government employee approached them with a complaint that the 26-year-old woman class teacher of his 14-year-old son had gone missing taking his son in tow. The man, who works at Udyog Bhavan in Gandhinagar said the woman had seduced his teenage son, who studies in class VIII and taken him away with her. The boy had gone missing from 4pm on Friday, and the classteacher was also missing.

A police official said the woman teacher had been too intimate with the allegedly missing boy for around a year, and the school authorities had recently rebuked them. “As their relationship was unaccepted, they left their homes on Friday,” he said. It was rare to find a case of a woman teacher eloping with her teenage student, the official added.

An FIR for elopement under Section 363 IPC has been registered with Kalol city police in Gandhinagar district. The complaint stated the teacher is a resident of Darbari chawl in Kalol town.

“When I reached home at around 7pm, I found my son missing. My wife told me he had left home at around 4pm. We searched for him in the neighbourhood and among relatives, but couldn’t trace him,” claims the teenage boy’s father in the FIR. “I went to the teacher’s house but they were not there,” the man stated.

Inspector K K Desai of Kalol city police said the missing duo could not be traced as they were not carrying cellphones.

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Agencies
July 17,2020

New Delhi, Jul 17: The first FIR against Volkswagen and Audi in India for installing cheat devices in their cars to misrepresent emissions has been filed in Noida.

The FIR was filed by Noida resident Aniljit Singh against the top officials of Volkswagen and Audi in India and their headquarters in Germany. These include Rahil Ansari, Brand Director, Audi India, Balbir Singh Dhillon, Head, Audi India, and Bram Schot, Chairman, Audi AG.

The FIR reviewed by media agency cites forgery, cheating and criminal conspiracy under various sections of the Indian Penal Code.

The complaint has cited the global emissions scandal where VW was found to be installing a cheat device in its cars, in the absence of which, the cars produced 10-40 times emissions beyond the permissible limits.

The complainant said that in 2018 he had purchased seven Audi cars worth crores of rupees. At the time of taking the delivery, the complainant said that he inquired if the cheat devices were installed in India and he was told by the company that they were not, as in India's emission norms were not as stringent and the country being a growing market for Audi, no such device was implanted.

The complaint said that the authorities in India observed that Audi cars' emissions for nitrogen oxide were 5-8 times the permissible limits and after the National Green Tribunal imposed a penalty of Rs 500 crore on VW, the complainant realised that he had been duped of his hard earned money.

He alleged that the accused persons had misrepresented the complainant by forging the documents and devices and caused wrongful gains to themselves and wrongful losses to the complainant. These officials had made wrong records to capture the market, with malafide intent and under a pre-planned conspiracy had induced and defrauded the complainant.

The accused persons are guilty of cheating the customers and have induced the complainant to part with hard earned money for sub-standard cars. The accused are also guilty of forging the documents on which they had sought various clearances.

The complainant has demanded that the allegations may be thoroughly investigated by a senior official.

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May 24,2020

Kanpur, May 24: Three persons onboard separate Shramik Special trains lost their lives due to various ailment, officials said here on Saturday.

"Family members of the deceased said all were suffering from serious ailment. The travel history of all the three deceased passengers was taken, Kanpur District Magistrate Brahma Deo Ram Tiwari said.

Giving details about the deceased, he said Naichinalyu Disang (23), a resident of Nagaland, was going from Delhi to Dimapur.

"She was suffering from liver ailments," Tiwari said. As she coughed and vomited in the train, other passengers got terrified, he added.

The district magistrate said the body reached Kanpur Central Station at around 10.00 am.

Sample has been taken to check for the presence of novel coronavirus. She was working at a spa in Himachal Pradesh, he said.

Tiwari said Rajendra Prasad (50), a resident of Unnao, died on the Lucknow-bound special train from Andhra Pradesh.

Munni Devi (80), a resident of Siwan district in Bihar, died onboard the special train going from Surat to Siwan, the senior official informed.

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