Infanticide?

The Statesman, May 21, 2007

BHAWANIPATNA, May 20: A case of murder has been registered by the Nuapada police on the basis of a complaint filed by the local doctor that a new-born girl child was found dead within 15 minutes of its birth. The doctor of a government health centre said he had conducted a safe delivery and the infant was healthy. But when he returned after a break he found the child dead. It is suspected that it was a case of dispensing with the girl child. The mother, Kanak Dei, pleaded ignorance. “There were signs of bleeding from mouth and nose,”said the doctor. n SNS