Twin baby case: Delhi Police files final report after two years

Delhi Police has filed a final report in a case involving an upscale private hospital in northwest Delhi's Shalimar Bagh which had wrongly declared a baby boy dead after birth, almost two years after the matter was reported.

The baby boy was wrongly declared dead by the facility after his birth on November 30.

However, he was found alive when his parents were taking his "body" for the last rites. He was then admitted to a nursing home in Pitampura, where he died a week later. His twin, a girl, was still-born. The twins were delivered at 23 weeks of pregnancy.

Initially, the district police was probing the matter but it was transferred to the crime branch on December 6, the day the baby boy died at the nursing home in Pitampura.

The Crime Branch had sought medical opinion from the Delhi Medical Council (DMC) in the matter.

As per the findings of the DMC and the investigation conducted, it was drawn that the DMC did not find any medical negligence in the case. However, it had recorded ..