Newborn found with slit throat in Madhya Pradesh makes recovery after a month in hospital
Bhopal: A newborn girl, named Pihu by hospital staff, has made a remarkable recovery after being found with her throat slit and abandoned in a dustbin in Rajgarh district, Madhya Pradesh. The infant was discovered on January 11, bleeding heavily, and was rushed to a hospital in Bhopal for treatment.
Doctors at Kamla Nehru Hospital performed multiple surgeries to repair her injuries. Despite the severity of the wound, which narrowly missed vital veins and arteries, she survived with intensive medical care. After a month of treatment, doctors declared her out of danger and discharged her on Friday.
According to the police, the baby’s grandmother allegedly slit her throat before dumping her in the bin. Both the grandmother and mother have been arrested and charged with attempted murder and abandonment.
Madhya Pradesh has recorded the highest number of infant abandonments in India over the past four years. According to the 2022 NCRB report, 175 newborns were abandoned in the state, with 174 cases registered. Many of these infants do not survive, with some falling prey to animals or succumbing to exposure.
Pihu has now been placed in a shelter home in Rajgarh under the supervision of the Child Welfare Committee.
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Over 17,000 people went missing in Delhi in 2024: NCRB
New Delhi (PTI): A total of 23,058 people, comprising 9,482 men and 13,576 women, were reported missing in Delhi in 2024, according to the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).
Of the total, 5,491 were children below the age of 18 — 1,571 boys, 3,920 girls.
The city recorded 17,567 fresh adult missing persons cases in 2024, comprising 7,911 men and 9,656 women.
According to the NCRB data, released on Wednesday, 14,637 men, 18,238 women and six transgender persons were still missing from previous years.
At the latest count, in 2024, Delhi had a total of 55,939 missing persons cases — 24,119 men, 31,814 women and six transgender persons.
In 2024, police traced or collected 28,392 missing persons, including 12,182 men, 16,208 women and two transgender persons.
Only half of the men and half of the women who went missing could be traced.
A total of 27,547 missing persons – 11,937 men, 15,606 women, four transgender persons — were yet to be untraced by the end of the year, the data showed.
The data also revealed that 5,352 children from previous years remained untraced at the beginning of 2024.
The number of still missing boys was 1,621, and the number of missing girls was 3,729. Two transgender children were yet to be found.
After adding the pending cases from previous years, the total number of missing children cases handled in 2024 rose to 10,843.
The police traced or recovered 6,762 missing children — 2,030 boys, 4,732 girls.
The recovery rate stood at 63.6 per cent for boys and 61.9 per cent for girls, while no transgender child was traced.
By the end of 2024, a total of 4,081 children remained untraced, 1,162 of them boys, 2,917 girls, and two transgender children.
