Five individuals, including the child’s mother, have been arrested nearly six months after a stillborn was discovered abandoned inside the toilet of a hospital in north Delhi’s Budh Vihar, police said on Thursday.
They stated the child’s mother (20), sister, boyfriend (24), and two others were detained on Tuesday.
According to a police officer, the woman was unmarried and had been residing in Budh Vihar for the previous three months, and she was pregnant with her boyfriend’s child.
According to police, the woman and the other suspects went to Rajni Gupta hospital in Budh Vihar on January 21 after complaining of stomach pain. Due to the unbearable pain, she ran to the toilet before the doctor arrived.
The woman gave birth to a stillborn in the toilet and escaped from the hospital along with her attendants, they said.
According to the official, the child was discovered when someone else went to the toilet late at night, and the police were notified.
According to Deputy Commissioner of Police (Rohini) G S Sidhu, CCTV footages from the hospital were reviewed during the investigation, however the faces of the accused and the registration numbers of their motorbike and scooter were obscured.
According to him, the investigative team examined approximately 250 CCTV footages of the region before spotting the accused in a CCTV footage of a medical shop in the area.
“The medical shop owner told police that the accused purchased some medicine from his shop and made the payment online. On the basis of details of this online transaction, the accused were traced and arrested,” Sidhu said.
Investigation revealed that the woman wanted to get rid of the child and the other accused helped her in the crime, he added.
(With inputs from PTI)
