M F AHMAD
Daltonganj, December 25: The woman who had delivered a stillborn male baby on railway platform number 1 of the Daltonganj railway station on December 7, has been traced and was sheltered in the Medininagar Nagar Nigam’s Aashray Grih in Daltonganj town last night.
Saraswati Devi (25) was found living by the side of a kaccha road away from the main road to Garhwa, cooking rice on a brick-made hearth.
A shanty structure all built of a worn-out plastic sheet was her house in the biting winter.
Sources said that the DC Palamu Anjaneyulu Dodde on learning that this woman is yet to be found, directed his machinery to locate her by all means. This is because the victim’s version of her ordeals on the night of December 7 will be vital in setting up an inquiry by the assistant collector Shrikant Vispute IAS.
DC Dodde has deputed Vispute to conduct the probe into the delivery fiasco at the Daltonganj railway station.
Sources said the survivor Devi has given her statement to the inquiry officer Vispute and provided details of how she lay there uncared for and unattended. This was because no one from the Medinirai medical college hospital had bothered to take her in.
The woman has said that she was taken down to the hospital by police in a commander vehicle and not an ambulance. In the hospital, she was informed that her child was brought dead.
Notably, only after a story was broken by lagatar24.com on Saturday, December 24, the administration took action and found the woman, who was traceless by then, within 5 to 6 hours.
The woman and her husband Rohit Kumar are both rag pickers and have now been lodged in the Aashray Grih.
The medical officer in charge of the community health centre Chainpur, Dr Chaman Kumar Bhardwaj said we have sent her a box of sanitary pads, calcium and iron tablets, multivitamins, and paracetamols.
