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Bangalore: Three-monthold-baby Hina (name changed), battered and smothered by her father, is fighting a grim battle for life on day 4 in a city hospital. The doctors at Vani Vilas
Hospital have put her on a ventilator and said her chances of survival appeared slim.
The baby was admitted to hospital on Friday night after her father allegedly tried to smother her as he did not want a girl child. Doctors said she has suffered brain haemorrhage, possibly because her father shook her up violently.
Hina’s father Umar Farooq was arrested on Monday. Police said he has confessed to making attempts to kill his daughter.
Reshma Banu, Hina’s anguished mother, recalled how her husband Umar senther on Friday to buy biscuits and then stuffed poison-laced food into the infant’s mouth to get rid of her. She said he tried to smother the sleeping infant in the night.
Now that Umar is under arrest, Reshma said there was no point returning to him.
Owing to family
pressure, I married him but later found that he was an alcoholic and drug addict. He used to say that I had to give him Rs 1 lakh if I gave birth to a girl child.''
Reshma Banu | mother It is a barbaric act. How can a father do this to his child? We will record the mother's version too and investigate it thoroughly." Nina Nayak | CHAIRPERSON, KARNATAKA STATE COMMISSION
FOR PROTECTION OF CHILD
RIGHTS
TRAGIC TALE: Doctors at Vani Vilas Hospital said on Monday the baby, caressed by her mother Reshma Banu, has suffered brain haemorrhage and her chances of survival are slim
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