New Delhi: The police on Friday started investigating the alleged role of a man involved in the baby brutality case. Police teams have been sent to Mumbai to trace and nab Rajkumar, the man who is believed to have handed over the two-year-old Falak to a teenaged girl, in Delhi.
Falak was brought in a battered condition to the AIIMS on January 18 by a 15-year-old girl who claimed to be her mother.
Police sources said the toddler could have been kidnapped and later abused. In fact, the teen mother who took her to the hospital could be a victim of abuse as well.
Meanwhile, the father of the 15-year-old girl has surfaced. The man, Jitendra Kumar Gupta, went to the Sangam Vihar police station in Delhi on Friday and claimed that his daughter ran away from home after a domestic dispute. Gupta also claimed that he knew Rajkumar but had no knowledge about Falak.
Gupta told the police that he wanted to take his daughter home but the teen girl's custody would be decided by the Child Welfare Committee which is scheduled to meet on January 31.
Falak has been fighting for her life at the AIIMS Trauma Centre. She was taken off the ventilator on Friday morning and doctors say she had regained control of her limbs.
The brain hemorrhage Falak sustained after her head was repeatedly smashed against a wall means a 100 per cent recovery is unlikely.
"We have been able to remove her from the ventilator, but she (baby) is in a transition from a ventilator to normal breathing. Till now, she's unconscious which means she's not able to follow commands," a doctor at AIIMS said.
The biological parents of Falak are yet to be traced. Sources added that the teenager's boyfriend Rajkumar, who is absconding, might hold the key to the mystery.
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Friday offered support for the toddler and said, "Delhi government will give all necessary support, let the report come."
Meanwhile, politicians and women activists condemned the appalling incident.
"The tragic thing is that such cases are not rare and occur very often in our country. Child sexual abuse is all the worse because we have no social infrastructure to support a child in distress," Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Brinda Karat said.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Shahnawaz Hussain said, "It (incident) is inhumane and stringent action should be taken against the culprits..."
With Additional Inputs from Agencies
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