Woman flings her newborn to death from third floor of Ahmedabad hospital

Fed up over the treatment of her newborn, a woman threw her from the third floor of the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital. The infant died, but the accused woman feigned ignorance before her husband that the infant was missing.

Ahmedabad: A case was registered against a woman for killing her newborn at Shahibagh police station in Ahmedabad district of Gujarat on Sunday. To get rid of the newborn, who was diagnosed with some stomach ailments, the accused threw her child from the third floor of the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital leading to instant death.

Accused woman Farzana Banu gave birth to a baby girl two months ago. Just 24 days after her birth she fell ill and was taken to SSG, Vadodara, where the doctor attending to the infant said that she had taken impure water, which caused her illness. Later, the infant was shifted to Nadiad Civil Hospital and finally to the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital.