New Born Girl Buried Alive is Rescued

Jaipur, August 11, 2011

In another case of attempted female infanticide, a newborn girl was found partially buried in an agriculture farm in Pawata village on the city’s outskirts on Thursday.  A woman working in the fields, heard her cries and alerted people.  The baby was  was rushed to a hospital where she was declared out of danger.  Full report here

Woman Sets Herself and her 3-year-old Daughter on Fire After Dowry Harassment

Amritsar, April 07, 2012

For many women in India giving birth to a daughter is a nightmare, because their husbands and in-laws start torturing them.  In many cases women are killed for giving birth to daughters [See News reports here]

To avoid this kind of violence, women often kill their own daughters after giving birth to them [See News reports here]

However, Jagroop Kaur of Amristar, unable to bear the abuse over more dowry demands from her husband, set fire to herself and her 3-year-old daughter, killing both.  No arrests have been made. Report here.

Baby Afreen Breathes Her Last: Killed by her Dad For Being Born A Girl!

Bangalore, April 11, 2012

Three-month-old Neha Afreen Banu, who suffered grievous physical injuries inflicted by her father, breathed her last on Wednesday in Bangalore Vanivilas Hospital. She died after suffering a cardiac arrest.

Afreen, born on January 17, 2012 was tortured by her father Omar Farooq who was upset that Afreen was a girl and not a boy.   Medical reports indicate that Afreen was a victim of shaken baby syndrome (child abuse caused by intentional shaking), she suffered very deep internal injuries including neck dislocation and subarachnoid haemorrhage (bleeding in the brain),  and intraocular haemorrhage (bleeding in the eyeball) due to the head injury.  Besides suffering from respiratory attack, convulsions, melena (stool with blood discharge), Afreen also had cigarette burns and bite marks on her body. Report here

A few weeks ago, another infant girl, baby Falak similarly battered, struggled for her life and died in a hospital in Delhi. Report here

Woman Brutalized For Bearing Daughters

Hyderabad, April 03, 2012

A woman who gave birth to two girls, had her third child another girl killed by her husband and in-laws who fed the child crushed tablets.  Then the wife was forced by her husband and in-laws again to abort three subsequent pregnancies apparently on the advice of a godman who said the woman would deliver a boy child only in her seventh pregnancy. The woman is now battling for her life at a private hospital as the forcible abortion is said to have infected her body parts.  Report here

Newborn Girl Dumped In Public Trash Can

Mumbai, October 08, 2011

On Thursday morning, those around Bhosale Maidan in Borivali (E) heard wails of a child. However, no one could figure where it was coming from.  When the wails didn’t stop, a shopkeeper followed the cries to a dustbin and, shockingly, found a baby girl had been dumped in one corner, put inside a plastic carry bag and a lot of garbage had been dumped on her. Rajendra Thakur, senior inspector who helped rescue the infant said, “She was completely covered in muck. Whoever dumped her obviously did not want the baby to live. Her umbilical cord and placenta were still intact. This is not a stray case.  On an average, 10-20 newborn girls are found killed or abandoned across the state every single day.”  Read the report here

New Born Baby Girl Buried Alive During Save The Girl Child Campaign

Burhanpur district, Madhya Pradesh, October 08, 2011

At a time when Madhya Pradesh government has been observing ‘Beti Bachao Abhiyan’ (The Campaign To Save The Girl Child)  since October 5 …in a shocking event, a newborn girl child was found buried alive under the ground in village Borhada of Burhanpur district on Thursday.  The Shikarpura police told the reporters that the baby girl has been recovered and is presently under medical observation.  Read the report here

 

Mother and Grandmother Kill Twin Baby Girls

Thoothukudi district, Tamil Nadu, October 09, 2009,

In a shocking case of female infanticide in southern Tamil Nadu, 21-year old Revathy along with her mother as accomplice, killed the new born twin girls she had given birth to two weeks ago.  While at the hospital, Revathy slit one of the infant’s throats, while her mother strangled the other.  Both the women were arrested in Thoothukudi district on Thursday. The police said the women were disappointed that both the babies were girls.  ( Watch Video ) See the report here

Mother Drowns Her Two Daughters

Howrah, 07 March 2008

Seema Sai confessed to drowning her two daughters, aged 4 years and 9 months,  in a Belur Math reservoir, apparently driven by “regular taunts” at her in-laws’ house for giving birth to girls.  Two days after the bodies of the two girls were fished out from the pond, the 24-year-old home-maker told police that she was subjected to “mental torture” by her husband and in-laws.  Read the report here 

Mother Kills 1-Day-Old Baby In The Hospital

Delhi, Feb 08, 2006

Pammi, a 25-year-old from Bihar’s Nalanda district, who has two young sons and had a complicated pregnancy.  A day after giving birth to a girl, Pammi strangled the baby as she slept next to her on the hospital bed.

Pammi who initially said the child died a natural death,  later confessed and said: “I made a mistake. But I did not want a girl child. It’s considered a bad omen back in our village in Bihar. So I killed her.” Read the report here

Murdered Baby Girl Thrown Off A Bridge

Ahmedabad, Gujarat, April 07, 2011

The body of a four-month-old baby girl that was thrown off the Chankyapuri bridge, from a moving vehicle, on March 28 has revealed a sordid tale of murder. Medicos who conducted the postmortem told the police that the little girl had been strangled to death before being dumped from the bridge onto the railway tracks. Read the report here