Not ‘newborn skeletons’, medical waste found at empty plot: Kolkata doctors
Kolkata, Sept 02: The packets found from a south Kolkata locality contained medical waste and not ‘decomposed remains of 14 babies and foetuses’ as alleged, doctors who examined them have said.
Panic prevailed in the city after it was alleged that workers cleaning a plot of land found remains of 14 bodies of newborns.
Kolkata mayor Sovan Chatterjee, who visited the spot, had said that the 14 bodies, wrapped separately in plastic, were in two bags.
Suspecting illegal abortion ring, Kolkata police commissioner Rajeev Kumar rushed to the spot.
However, the police did not open the packets and sent them straight to M R Bangur hospital for post-mortem.
In the evening, doctors informed the police that the packets contained no human issue.
“Doctors who opened the packets found no human tissue. They found dry ice. Examination is on to determine the exact nature of the material,” said Nilanjan Biswas, deputy commissioner of Kolkata police’s South-West Division.
“A thorough search of the entire area, including nearby water-bodies, will be conducted to see if there are more bodies,” Sovan Chatterjee said.
Barely a couple of hours ago, Biswas had said that the police suspected the packets to be containing remains of foetuses and newborns, but will wait for the post-mortem report to set the course of investigation.
“There is no question of conducting post-mortem because ho human element was found,” said a doctor at M R Bangur hospital on condition of anonymity.
Biswas said a team of forensic science experts have been called in to investigate the packets.
A police officer who did not want to be identified said that the news of recovery of these packets created panic because in November 2016, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Bengal Police discovered two skeletons and three skulls of newborns from the premises of an NGO of Maslandapur in North 24 Parganas district.
The CID also busted a baby trafficking racket that was active since 2014 and 50 babies were trafficked, Rajesh Kumar, additional director general, CID had said then.
Courtesy: www.hindustantimes.com
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Voting begins for Assam''s 126 assembly seats
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Guwahati (PTI): Polling for all 126 Assam assembly constituencies began on Thursday to decide the electoral fate of 722 candidates, officials said.
In the high-stakes election, the ruling BJP is aiming for a third consecutive term in office, while the Congress seeks to wrest power after being ousted in 2016.
Polling, being held in a single phase, began at 7 am and will conclude at 5 pm. Long queues of voters were seen outside polling stations from early morning.
An electorate of 2.50 crore, including 1.25 crore women and 318 from the third gender, can exercise their franchise in 31,490 polling stations across the state.
Prominent candidates include Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, Congress state president Gaurav Gogoi, assembly Speaker Biswajit Daimary, Leader of the opposition Debabrata Saikia, AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal, Raijor Dal president Akhil Gogoi, and Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) chief Lurinjyoti Gogoi.
Several cabinet ministers, including the AGP’s Atul Bora and Keshav Mahanta, and the BPF’s Charan Boro are also in the fray.
The Congress has the highest of 99 contestants, followed by the BJP (90), AIUDF (30), NDA allies AGP (26) and BPF (11).
Opposition alliance’s Raijor Dal is contesting in 13, AJP in 10, CPI(M) in 3 and APHLC in 2. Outside the two coalitions, the AAP is contesting in 18 seats, UPPL in 18, TMC 22, JMM 16 and there are 258 independents.
The ruling NDA’s main constituents are the BJP, Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and the Bodo Peoples’ Front (BPF) while the opposition alliance comprises the Congress, Raijor Dal, Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP), CPI(M), All Party Hill Leaders Conference (APHLC) and CPI(ML).
The counting of votes is scheduled on May 4.
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