UP: Woman kills girl soon after giving birth, caught while dumping body in canal
Sultanpur (PTI): A woman was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly killing her newborn daughter, with the matter coming to light when the accused tried to dump the body in a canal here, police said.
According to officials, the initial investigation suggests that the twice-divorced woman, Shehnaz, gave birth on Monday night out of an alleged illicit relationship, and she tried to dispose of the body to conceal the matter.
Police said the resident of Jamoli village allegedly killed the infant on Tuesday morning. She placed the body in a bag and reached the Babuganj canal, which raised suspicion among some locals there.
As she attempted to throw the bag into the water, they stopped her and informed the Dwarkaganj police outpost, an official said.
"A police team reached the spot and recovered the bag from the woman. On opening it, they found the newborn and took her to the Government Medical College, Sultanpur, where doctors declared the baby dead," a police official said.
The body has been sent for post-mortem, officials said.
Station House Officer (SHO) of Gosaiganj Ram Ashish Upadhyay said the matter came to light through local residents, and the woman was taken into custody soon after.
"The body has been sent for autopsy, and legal proceedings are underway," he said.
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Unemployed 'youngsters like cockroaches' become media, activists; attack system: CJI
New Delhi (PTI): Likening some unemployed youngsters to cockroaches, Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant on Friday said they go on to "become" media, social media and RTI activists and start attacking the system.
The comments came while a bench of CJI Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi was pulling up a lawyer for "pursuing" a senior advocate designation. It said there were already "parasites" in society who attack the system and asked the petitioner whether he wanted to join hands with them.
"The entire world may be eligible to become senior (advocate), but at least you are not entitled," the bench told the petitioner lawyer.
A visibly anguished CJI observed that if the Delhi High Court would confer senior advocate designation upon the petitioner, the apex court would set that aside seeing his professional conduct.
The CJI also referred to the kind of language used by the petitioner on Facebook.
"There are already parasites of society who attack the system and you want to join hands with them?" he said.
"There are youngsters like cockroaches, who don't get any employment or have any place in profession. Some of them become media, some of them become social media, RTI activists and other activists and they start attacking everyone," he said.
The bench also asked the petitioner whether he did not have any other litigation.
"Is this the conduct of a person who seeks to be designated as a senior advocate?" the bench asked.
It said senior advocate designation is something that is conferred on a person and is not to be pursued.
"You are pursuing it. Does it look proper?" the top court said, asking whether a senior advocate designation was a status symbol to be kept ornamentally.
It also observed that it wanted to ask the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to verify the degrees of many of those who were wearing black robes as there were serious doubts over the genuineness of their degrees.
It said the Bar Council of India would never do anything on this issue as they "need their votes".
The petitioner apologised to the bench and sought permission to withdraw the petition. The bench allowed the withdrawal of the petition.
