Baby buried alive, rescued

Baby buried alive, rescued

Hyderabad, July 5: A two-day-old female baby escaped miraculously after being buried alive by her mother and kin. The incident occurred in Utkoor village of Mahbubnagar district on Thursday morning.
Police said that the baby had a providential escape after a boy tending cattle heard her feeble cries and came running. He saw a tiny hand struggling to come out of the pile of mud and took her out with the help of other villagers. A tractor driver passing by informed the police of the incident. Villagers took the baby to a primary health care centre for first aid and then rushed her to the area hospital in Narayanpet.
Police found out that the baby’s mother Miran Bee, 18, had buried it alive in the early hours of Thursday along with her father Abdul Rehman and her uncle Abdul Rasheed.Though villagers claimed that the baby stayed buried for about four hours, doctors vouched that the baby could not have stayed under mud for more than 10 minutes. Angry villagers beat up Rehman and Rasheed and dragged them before the police. They have decided to ostracise the family. Police took the woman and her relatives into custody and registered cases against them under section 307 of the Indian Penal Code.

source: Deccan Chronicle